Mythic Beasts

Tickets for Electromagnetic Field 2026 go on sale on Monday and we're silver sponsors again. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2026/03/0…

We pulled an all-nighter in Amsterdam recently, surprisingly the next morning everything was much improved. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/12/0…

We're out and about again today, off to London for the @LINX_Network member meeting.

@mason_tweet @bt_uk We went upstairs. The view from the top is astonishing.

@Mythic_Beasts @bt_uk Make sure you go next door. Thats where the meeting is, they just use carrier level translation for the address.

Thanks to @bt_uk for hosting the annual #IPv6 council meeting in their iconic tower (and enabling IPv6 for tens of millions of their users).

Off to the #IPv6 council meeting today. With UK adoption over 50% we're now working on connecting up the minority of internet users who are v4 only.

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. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/11/1…

@zkBaraka @slimjimmy What would you do with the other three cores? @piwheels does a few hundred million requests per year with one @Raspberry_Pi as the front end web server.

@slimjimmy I'd be submitting my resignation the moment this gets approved. If my service has 50k/day I'd host it on a raspberry pi

less than half a person per service

We've joined the panel for @Nominet s new DNS Fund, they have £370k to be distributed to open source DNS projects and their dependencies. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09/2…

The Green Web Foundation has re-verified that we use renewable energy in our UK and EU zones. #1333" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">app.greenweb.org/directory/#1333

@BenjaminEHowe That should speed up some of our update runs for managed Wordpress by taking our nat64 proxy service out of the path. #ipv6

@Mythic_Beasts I imagine you've seen this but just in case: #comment:26" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3090#co…

Off to the @Nominet members conference today. nominet.uk/uk-members-con…

@BenjaminEHowe Only for customers where we're also providing network services. Inferno might be a good choice otherwise, inferno.co.uk/products/inter…

@Mythic_Beasts do you offer RIPE ASN sponsorship? Guessing not because it's not listed on your website, but figure it's worth asking the question 🙂

Why we no longer support the use of Cloudflare on our web and email hosting accounts. Spoiler: it's AI bot scraping. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09/0…

@dok2001 Amazon ran multiple private fibres to us as we exchange huge quantities of non abusive data with them. It is true to state that we have more total capacity, and more reliable capacity to AWS than we do to Cloudflare, even though we peer with both.

Triangle Man is a decent front end designer, but he knows nothing about networks. He keeps having to make this point because he has built Vercel on top of AWS which charges him for bandwidth so he has to pass that cost onto his customers or he'll go bankrupt. Cloudflare, on the other hand, built our own network so bandwidth is largely free for us. The best judge of the 'quality' of bandwidth is how peered an organization is. Here's a list of the most peered networks in the world: #_participants" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bgp.he.net/report/exchang…. Amazon is very good with about 600 networks it peers with, but Cloudflare has more than twice that number. That means that the default bandwidth you get for free from Cloudflare is actually more likely to be fast and reliable than the Amazon bandwidth you pay for from Vercel

@jon_schneider Please ensure support@mythic-beasts.com is whitelisted and then email us again in the next few days, and we should be able to sort the situation out with you.

Mightily miffed that @Mythic_Beasts have not invoiced me or chased up and now shut my server down.

@jon_schneider Hi Jon, sorry you haven't been getting our emails, but it looks like your server has been bouncing the invoices and reminders as spam, and may not have got the support ticket reply for the same reason. We've unsuspended the server for now.

We think we might have some engineering nerds on staff. The live stream of Big Karl lowering a 245 ton steel dome onto @hinkleypointc is causing some distractions this morning. youtube.com/watch?v=GT-nRC…

@sej7278 @Raspberry_Pi The @Usborne book 'Machine code for beginners' has a lot to answer for, trained an entire generation. drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0Ss…

@Mythic_Beasts @Raspberry_Pi Haha! How many of us have said the same about the BBC Micro?

"The reason I am here is because my parents bought me a @Raspberry_Pi as a child'. Newly arrived summer student demonstrates a long term but very valuable return on our years of investment.