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2026 10

  1. PHPocalypse
  2. wp2shell
  3. Electromagnetic Field 2026
  4. Security keys now supported for 2FA
  5. Human support requires human queries
  6. Website update
  7. Robocon 2026
  8. Domain price reductions
  9. Electromagnetic Field Silver Sponsor 2026
  10. Review sites: like them or loathe them, you can’t ignore them

2025 13

  1. Amsterdam all-nighter
  2. .ie domains
  3. Gmail drop support for checking other accounts
  4. Funding Open Source DNS
  5. Web hosting and Cloudflare
  6. VMHaus closure & NLNet donation
  7. MOSS – the antidote to SaaS
  8. Self-driving robot dragons
  9. Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn
  10. Email alphabet soup
  11. Supporting the Open Rights Group
  12. The Death of Email Forwarding
  13. Virtual servers now available in Telehouse

2024 14

  1. A big change that you hopefully won’t notice
  2. IPv6 Networking in the UK
  3. Simple cancellation
  4. More domain price reductions
  5. Changes in .gov.uk
  6. Mailman list archive link preservation
  7. Multi-coloured bandwidth in an Electromagnetic Field
  8. Sampling an Electromagnetic Field
  9. Out standing in two fields
  10. Electromagnetic Field 2024 sponsorship
  11. HEX-it complete
  12. It’s always DNS (why domain transfers suck)
  13. Green hosting
  14. Mastodon security update

2023 6

  1. Exim 0-day
  2. Hex it
  3. PHP 8.2
  4. .ie domains and reduced domain pricing
  5. Debian Bookworm released and fully supported by Mythic Beasts
  6. IPv4 to IPv6 Proxy API

2022 5

  1. Finance and Administrative Assistant
  2. The secret to great technical support? No support staff.
  3. New data centre presence: City Lifeline
  4. Choose your own PHP version
  5. Raspberry Pi Desktop now in our Raspberry Pi Cloud

2021 11

  1. Log4J security issues
  2. IPv6 Deployment World Leader
  3. Improving the world bit by expensive bit
  4. Domain Management API
  5. Bullseye, new Debian release
  6. 8GB and overclocked Raspberry Pi servers
  7. VPS API, on-demand billing and dormant VPSs
  8. Teaching our network some MANRS
  9. Restoring Nominet’s Purpose: update
  10. Testimonials
  11. Nominet: managing .uk for public benefit

2020 19

  1. Zero-day Security Updates for Managed WordPress
  2. MagPi magazine: how to host a website on a Raspberry Pi
  3. More DNS API fun: find an IP across all zones
  4. IPv4/IPv6 transit in HE Fremont 2
  5. Raspberry Pi Cloud updates, 64 Bit OS support
  6. Save £700/month with a Mythic Beasts VPS and OpenStreetMap
  7. New improved VPS pricing
  8. Raspberry Pi 4 now available in our Pi Cloud
  9. Automating DNS challenges
  10. US hosting launch
  11. New DNS API
  12. Covid 19 update
  13. DNS API: sed vs jq
  14. Covid-19
  15. New DNS API – easily update SSHFP keys
  16. IPv6-only hosting in 2020
  17. Working with talented people.
  18. Security in DNS, TLSA records now available in our control panel to support DANE
  19. Two Factor Auth – TOTP now available

2019 13

  1. IPv6 updates
  2. Updates to sympl to continue to support Let’s Encrypt
  3. Let’s Encrypt support for older Debian
  4. Sympl fixes potential GDPR compliance issue in Symbiosis
  5. Introducing Sympl
  6. VMHaus services now available in Amsterdam
  7. Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
  8. Out standing in a field
  9. Hosting made Sympl
  10. Moving to Mythic Beasts just got easier
  11. Round-robin DNS – another use for ANAMEs
  12. Mythic Beasts gaan naar Nederland
  13. Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificates

2018 13

  1. Mythic Beasts acquires VMHaus
  2. OpenWRT install to RAM – run iftop on a router with very limited flash
  3. libssh emergency update
  4. Toby Goodwin (1968-2018)
  5. Mythic Beasts acquires BHost
  6. Finance and Administrative Assistant
  7. Retrosnub Acquisition
  8. Let’s Encrypt, Dehydrated, Curl and redirects
  9. Raspberry Pi 3B+
  10. Flatpak: pre-assembled furniture applications for Linux
  11. Chrome to brand non-HTTPS sites as “insecure” – time to click the button
  12. Domain price reductions
  13. Meltdown and Spectre

2017 23

  1. Capacity upgrades, cheaper bandwidth and new fibre
  2. Sender Rewriting Scheme
  3. Education, and the teacher becomes the student.
  4. CAA records
  5. Raspbian Stretch now available in the Raspberry Pi Cloud
  6. rm -rf /var
  7. FRμIT: Federated RaspberryPi MicroInfrastructure Testbed
  8. Encryption is vital
  9. Save the Black Horse
  10. Cambridge Beer Festival, Raspberry Pi powered Apps for Beer
  11. Raspberry Pi Cloud upgrades
  12. Upgraded backups
  13. One click HTTPS + HSTS
  14. PHP7 on Pi 3 in the cloud (take 2)
  15. PHP7 on a Raspberry Pi 3 in the cloud
  16. Hosting a website on an IPv6 Pi part 2: PROXY protocol
  17. One-click SPF
  18. Attending a 5 year old’s birthday party
  19. Hosting a website on a Raspberry Pi with IPv6 and SSL (part 1)
  20. Rearranging Raspberry Pi
  21. Ten years on, Chris Lightfoot looks more prescient than ever
  22. Tax needn’t be taxing thanks to TaxCalc
  23. Managed WordPress

2016 26

  1. Don’t leave your laptop in the pub
  2. On the upside, the server room isn’t on fire.
  3. Notify My Android support for monitoring
  4. Backup Upgrade
  5. IPv6 Update
  6. More bandwidth
  7. ANAME records
  8. Sneak preview from Mythic Labs, Raspberry Pi netboot
  9. VPS-not-so-lite
  10. I know that I know nothing
  11. DNSSEC now in use by Raspberry Pi
  12. PROXY protocol + nginx = broken header
  13. PROXY protocol support for our, err, proxy
  14. IPv6 only hosting
  15. Let’s Encrypt IPv6-only
  16. Without the hot air
  17. The little computer that did
  18. Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates using DNS API – HOWTO
  19. Additional Managed Rack Capacity
  20. Rebuilding Raspberry Pi
  21. One-click DNSSEC – public beta
  22. Hosting the Raspberry Pi 3 launch, on a Raspberry Pi 3
  23. UK domain price rises
  24. The problem with the youth of today is hard work and excessive talent
  25. Free SSL certificates for hosting accounts
  26. Decimal points are important

2015 46

  1. I did not go to the ball
  2. PiZero won!
  3. Testing failure: Raspbian
  4. Win a PiZero
  5. Raspberry Pi Zero: Not executing a trillion lines of PHP
  6. IPv4 is so last century
  7. Rebuilding Software RAID 1 refused to boot
  8. If you put your mind to it
  9. IPv6 Graphing
  10. Professor Cathie Clarke, Ada Lovelace day
  11. IPv4 to IPv6 Reverse Proxy & Load Balancer
  12. iOS 9 and SSL
  13. UK IPv6 Council Forum, 2nd Annual Meeting
  14. Selling hardware into the cloud
  15. Ethernet Speeds: expect 2.5Gbps on copper, 25Gbps on fibre
  16. Linux for switches
  17. BOGOF on .uk domains, cheap .beer and lots more
  18. Stormy weather, the clouds are growing.
  19. Snapshot Backups – Public Beta
  20. Happy Incorporation Day to Us
  21. Happy Tenth Eleventh Birthday to The Cloud
  22. Five reasons why you should have your own domain for your email
  23. OpenSSL release due
  24. Women in Technology and avoiding ISP filters
  25. More disk space for all web hosting accounts
  26. The hazards of 301 (permanent) redirects
  27. iOS9, IPv6, £20pa off v6 only VMs
  28. SHA-1 for mail, SHA-2 for web
  29. Dnssec
  30. Virtual Server Snapshots
  31. A non-party political broadcast from Mythic Beasts
  32. Debian 8.0 “Jessie” now available
  33. UKNOF31
  34. Virtual Servers – SSDs and disk upgrades
  35. IPv6 bites again
  36. Helping RachelPi
  37. WP Super Cache vs Raspberry Pi 2
  38. Happy Birthday to Raspberry Pi
  39. Of Raspberries and Reptiles
  40. Bandwidth Upgrades for Cambridge servers
  41. Virtual Server performance boost
  42. Bring Your Own ISO
  43. glibc 0-day exploit (GHOST), how we’re handling it
  44. A very personal opinion
  45. A day in the life of a Mythic Beasts employee after David Cameron bans secure encryption he can’t intercept
  46. Virtual Servers: double the RAM, more CPUs

2014 41

  1. Virtual Server bandwidth upgrades
  2. The EU VAT MESS (again)
  3. Tax doesn’t have to be taxing (part 1 aka the #VATMESS)
  4. Server Castle
  5. HipHop and WordPress: If you’re tired of tea then you’re tired of life…
  6. Difficult customers
  7. Shellshock by mail
  8. Poodle and Pound
  9. IPv6 support in the UK
  10. Unlimited domains on shared hosting
  11. Shell Shock 2: The AfterShock
  12. Security issue in bash
  13. Ticket escalation
  14. SSL certificates: SHA-1 deprecation
  15. Bzip2
  16. Get your site ready for IPv6: a step-by-step guide
  17. New improved IPv6 site tester
  18. Ice Bucket
  19. Depending on nowhere by peering with everyone everywhere
  20. 512k routes
  21. Now accepting paypal
  22. HTTPS: the new default?
  23. Free Beer
  24. More monitoring service improvements
  25. .uk domains now available
  26. Enabling Anycast DNS with Esgob
  27. Defeat Terrorism, Cure Cancer, Win a Mythic Beasts Mug
  28. Dynamic DNS
  29. Up to 33% off new domain registrations
  30. Operating OS X without a mouse
  31. Direct Debits and Domain Auto-Renewals
  32. IPv6-only Virtual Servers
  33. New Top-Level Domains
  34. Meaningless codes
  35. Single Point of Failure
  36. Monitoring service improvements
  37. Router fails, no packets dropped.
  38. Saturday outage report
  39. More bits
  40. Raspi.tv
  41. Coping with Christmas

2013 26

  1. LINX now running at 2x10Gbps
  2. Sender Verify vs Hotmail
  3. IPv6 Reverse DNS
  4. Tricky debugging
  5. Migrating the Science Media Centre
  6. Enabling IPv6 on your mail servers? Don’t forget SPF
  7. Sphinx aka Trigger’s Broom
  8. Rocket Science
  9. Filtering on received headers? Seriously?
  10. @Mythic_Beasts now on Twitter
  11. IPv6 and the trouble with being happy
  12. Are you ready for IPv6?
  13. Update on spam from Communicado Ltd.
  14. The endless war on spam
  15. More virtual servers and a competition
  16. DNS API – Implementing Dynamic DNS
  17. IPv6, End users starting to care
  18. I do not accept your silly software license
  19. New DNS resolvers
  20. Downstream ASN
  21. Joining the London Internet Exchange
  22. Dark Fibre
  23. Power efficiency
  24. Debugging IPv6 support
  25. RaspberryPi crash
  26. Some more benchmarks

2012 26

  1. New interview question
  2. mosh available on shell accounts
  3. Bluelinux Migration Complete
  4. Adventures with mysql
  5. Updates to our shared hosting platform
  6. Bigger dedicated servers
  7. Raspberry Pi hosts itself
  8. Mythic Beasts support Raspberry Pi at Nominet Internet Awards
  9. Improvements to DNS API
  10. Leap Seconds
  11. 100th anniversary of Alan Turing, celebrate with free beer
  12. IPv6 by default
  13. VDS Updates
  14. Incentive schemes
  15. Team Building
  16. Django installed on sphinx
  17. Multi-year registration for .co.uk; new Top Level Domains
  18. Debian on VDS guide
  19. NetBSD on our VDS platform
  20. Domain Privacy now in the control panel.
  21. Virtual Server specs updated – 1GB VDS from £15/month
  22. RaspberryPi mirror
  23. Actually it is rocket science
  24. Mythic Beasts is too fast for the youth of today.
  25. 10 Gigabit networking in SOV & HEX
  26. IPv6 glue for .com/.net/.org

2011 12

  1. Serial console configuration in the control panel
  2. Status page now has an RSS feed
  3. DNSSEC and IPv6 glue for .uk domains
  4. R Project for Statistical Computing
  5. Inappropriate Benchmarks
  6. Leveraged buyouts and achieving corporate synergies
  7. IPv6 nameserver
  8. DNS Changes
  9. Running to beat depression
  10. Hosting the complete ipv6 reverse zone file
  11. Monitoring API
  12. IPv6 Update

2010 13

  1. Exim 4 remote root vulnerability
  2. Rescuing a customer on a failed ubuntu upgrade
  3. DNS Api
  4. Peering with Google
  5. Debian Barbeque
  6. 10 GigE networking
  7. Power failure in Telehouse North
  8. Ipv6
  9. Bandwidth upgrade for Cambridge hosted servers
  10. New Mac mini – any good as a server?
  11. New Xen-based virtual servers
  12. Peering: EDGE-IX, JANET, Nominet
  13. Mythic Beasts does Web 1.9