Mythic Beasts Ltd
@mythic-beasts.com
Now with servers and network in six data centres in three countries. We're really good at managing Linux servers, email, websites and domains with the odd cute cat picture thrown in.
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/
https://status.mythic-beasts.net.uk/
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/
https://status.mythic-beasts.net.uk/
We recently became Accredited .ie Registrars and the first part of our .ie integration is now live. Transfer your .ie domains to us and enjoy our refreshingly boring pricing. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/11...
November 2025 - Mythic Beasts
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November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We recently became Accredited .ie Registrars and the first part of our .ie integration is now live. Transfer your .ie domains to us and enjoy our refreshingly boring pricing. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/11...
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@dastardlybro.bsky.social We use Nextcloud for @chtra.org.uk. It works pretty well on a small virtual server. @mythic-beasts.com provide a hosted version.
October 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
@dastardlybro.bsky.social We use Nextcloud for @chtra.org.uk. It works pretty well on a small virtual server. @mythic-beasts.com provide a hosted version.
We've joined the panel for Nominets new DNS Fund, they have £370k to be distributed to open source DNS projects and their dependencies. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09...
Funding Open Source DNS - Mythic Beasts
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September 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We've joined the panel for Nominets new DNS Fund, they have £370k to be distributed to open source DNS projects and their dependencies. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09...
The Green Web Foundation has re-verified that we use renewable energy in our UK and EU zones. app.greenweb.org/directory/#1...
Green Web Foundation
app.greenweb.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Green Web Foundation has re-verified that we use renewable energy in our UK and EU zones. app.greenweb.org/directory/#1...
Off to the @nominet.uk members conference today. nominet.uk/uk-members-c...
.UK Members' Conference 2025 - Nominet
Nominet members' conference 2025 - bringing you a packed agenda, covering the current and future state of .UK.
nominet.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Off to the @nominet.uk members conference today. nominet.uk/uk-members-c...
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A great site, absolutely worthy of the Ronseal of Approval.
And thanks also to @mythic-beasts.com for hosting it! I'm a happy customer of their DNS and domain services.
And thanks also to @mythic-beasts.com for hosting it! I'm a happy customer of their DNS and domain services.
September 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A great site, absolutely worthy of the Ronseal of Approval.
And thanks also to @mythic-beasts.com for hosting it! I'm a happy customer of their DNS and domain services.
And thanks also to @mythic-beasts.com for hosting it! I'm a happy customer of their DNS and domain services.
Why we no longer support the use of Cloudflare on our web and email hosting accounts. Spoiler: it's AI bot scraping. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09...
Web hosting and Cloudflare - Mythic Beasts
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September 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Why we no longer support the use of Cloudflare on our web and email hosting accounts. Spoiler: it's AI bot scraping. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09...
We think we might have some engineering nerds on staff. The live stream of Big Karl lowering a 245 ton steel dome onto @hinkleypointc.bsky.social is causing some distractions this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-n...
Big Carl lifts the dome onto second reactor | Hinkley Point C
YouTube video by EDF 🇬🇧
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July 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We think we might have some engineering nerds on staff. The live stream of Big Karl lowering a 245 ton steel dome onto @hinkleypointc.bsky.social is causing some distractions this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-n...
"The reason I am here is because my parents bought me a @raspberrypi.com as a child'.
New talented summer student demonstrates a very slow but very valuable return on investment.
New talented summer student demonstrates a very slow but very valuable return on investment.
July 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The reason I am here is because my parents bought me a @raspberrypi.com as a child'.
New talented summer student demonstrates a very slow but very valuable return on investment.
New talented summer student demonstrates a very slow but very valuable return on investment.
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My Domains are on Cloudflare; Hosting is a mix of local VMs and cloud computing, including @mythic-beasts.com (Raspberry Pi Hosting)
July 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
My Domains are on Cloudflare; Hosting is a mix of local VMs and cloud computing, including @mythic-beasts.com (Raspberry Pi Hosting)
VMHaus is now fully closed. The unused customer balances totaled €4550 after we rounded them all up and this has been donated to NLNet to support the Open Internet. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/06...
June 2025 - Mythic Beasts
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June 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
VMHaus is now fully closed. The unused customer balances totaled €4550 after we rounded them all up and this has been donated to NLNet to support the Open Internet. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/06...
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Well, that's me migrated from Hostgator to @mythic-beasts.com - let's see how it goes! Also moved an e-mail domain from historic Google Business hosting too.
Hostgator took the piss with pricing a couple of years ago (sudden $10 increase), finally sorting it now. This'll save 20 quid a month.
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Hostgator took the piss with pricing a couple of years ago (sudden $10 increase), finally sorting it now. This'll save 20 quid a month.
1/3
May 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well, that's me migrated from Hostgator to @mythic-beasts.com - let's see how it goes! Also moved an e-mail domain from historic Google Business hosting too.
Hostgator took the piss with pricing a couple of years ago (sudden $10 increase), finally sorting it now. This'll save 20 quid a month.
1/3
Hostgator took the piss with pricing a couple of years ago (sudden $10 increase), finally sorting it now. This'll save 20 quid a month.
1/3
#IPv6 usage in the UK now over 50% according to Google. Still someway behind Germany (75%) and France (84%) but to out of context quote Jon Bon Jovi, "woah oh, we're half way there'.
www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...
www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...
IPv6 – Google
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April 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#IPv6 usage in the UK now over 50% according to Google. Still someway behind Germany (75%) and France (84%) but to out of context quote Jon Bon Jovi, "woah oh, we're half way there'.
www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...
www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...
Our secret research program reveals that more than one rubber duck per primary school girl optimises code generation efficiency in robot building challenges. Advances in #ActualIntelligence #AI www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04...
April 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Our secret research program reveals that more than one rubber duck per primary school girl optimises code generation efficiency in robot building challenges. Advances in #ActualIntelligence #AI www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04...
We once suggested blocking a million IPs to deal with abusive AI crawlers. In hindsight that was a pretty severe underestimate www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04...
Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn - Mythic Beasts
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April 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We once suggested blocking a million IPs to deal with abusive AI crawlers. In hindsight that was a pretty severe underestimate www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04...
Today's special request from the order form.
March 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Today's special request from the order form.
Another day with multiple staff focused on blocking abusive AI crawlers rather than doing something useful.
March 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Another day with multiple staff focused on blocking abusive AI crawlers rather than doing something useful.
Email alphabet soup, a variety of acronyms that throw your email away explained partly with the help of a cat. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/03...
March 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Email alphabet soup, a variety of acronyms that throw your email away explained partly with the help of a cat. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/03...
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Today, Index, @openrightsgroup.bsky.social and @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social wrote to the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, calling for the secret Tribunal into the Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in public:
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/righ...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/righ...
March 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today, Index, @openrightsgroup.bsky.social and @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social wrote to the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, calling for the secret Tribunal into the Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in public:
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/righ...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/righ...
We sponsor the hosting for this not only because it unambiguously makes the UK a better place but also because we extensively use it for our own travel needs too.
Needed these this week.
“I absolutely love the site. I’m totally blind, using JAWS and it’s so easy to use. Many thanks for your excellent site.”
“Hi, I’m a blind user of traintimes.org.uk [...] Thanks so much for having the site, which is extremely screen reader friendly.”
“I absolutely love the site. I’m totally blind, using JAWS and it’s so easy to use. Many thanks for your excellent site.”
“Hi, I’m a blind user of traintimes.org.uk [...] Thanks so much for having the site, which is extremely screen reader friendly.”
Accessible UK Train Timetables
A blazingly small and fast UK train times journey planner and live departure boards, with bookmarkable URLs as a web app, and offline saving of viewed journeys.
traintimes.org.uk
March 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We sponsor the hosting for this not only because it unambiguously makes the UK a better place but also because we extensively use it for our own travel needs too.
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Save Our Sites!
Faced with fines under the UK Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites will shut down by the 17 March deadline.
This is a threat to net plurality and federated social media!
Find out more ⬇️ #SaveOurSites
www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-ou...
Faced with fines under the UK Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites will shut down by the 17 March deadline.
This is a threat to net plurality and federated social media!
Find out more ⬇️ #SaveOurSites
www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-ou...
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators the...
www.openrightsgroup.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Save Our Sites!
Faced with fines under the UK Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites will shut down by the 17 March deadline.
This is a threat to net plurality and federated social media!
Find out more ⬇️ #SaveOurSites
www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-ou...
Faced with fines under the UK Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites will shut down by the 17 March deadline.
This is a threat to net plurality and federated social media!
Find out more ⬇️ #SaveOurSites
www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-ou...
Remember we all must do our part to maintain Internet reliability so we have an un-interruptable supply of cat pictures. #FloofDayFriday
February 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Remember we all must do our part to maintain Internet reliability so we have an un-interruptable supply of cat pictures. #FloofDayFriday
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ORG is immensely grateful for the invaluable support that @mythic-beasts.com gives us 🌱
It's truly game-changing and allows us to focus more resources on campaigning.
#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights
It's truly game-changing and allows us to focus more resources on campaigning.
#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights
We've been sponsoring the @openrightsgroup.bsky.social with donated servers to assist them in campaigning for digital rights, most notably the ability to encrypt your data and keep it secure. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/02...
Supporting the Open Rights Group - Mythic Beasts
www.mythic-beasts.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
ORG is immensely grateful for the invaluable support that @mythic-beasts.com gives us 🌱
It's truly game-changing and allows us to focus more resources on campaigning.
#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights
It's truly game-changing and allows us to focus more resources on campaigning.
#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights
We've been sponsoring the @openrightsgroup.bsky.social with donated servers to assist them in campaigning for digital rights, most notably the ability to encrypt your data and keep it secure. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/02...
Supporting the Open Rights Group - Mythic Beasts
www.mythic-beasts.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We've been sponsoring the @openrightsgroup.bsky.social with donated servers to assist them in campaigning for digital rights, most notably the ability to encrypt your data and keep it secure. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/02...
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Definitely recommend @mythicbeasts.bsky.social.
STUNNING support and excellent value for money.
I moved all my domains and hosting to them, and am somehow getting a top-notch managed service for my @libreture.com server for a very reasonable price.
Their support is [chef's kiss]!
STUNNING support and excellent value for money.
I moved all my domains and hosting to them, and am somehow getting a top-notch managed service for my @libreture.com server for a very reasonable price.
Their support is [chef's kiss]!
February 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Definitely recommend @mythicbeasts.bsky.social.
STUNNING support and excellent value for money.
I moved all my domains and hosting to them, and am somehow getting a top-notch managed service for my @libreture.com server for a very reasonable price.
Their support is [chef's kiss]!
STUNNING support and excellent value for money.
I moved all my domains and hosting to them, and am somehow getting a top-notch managed service for my @libreture.com server for a very reasonable price.
Their support is [chef's kiss]!