Mythic Beasts Ltd

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Amazing customer service and support! Best all round.

Try Mythic Beasts @mythic-beasts.com .

We offer mastodon instance as a service. Our typical users are company official instances or we provide the tech/operations for cooperative groups with hundreds to thousands of members.

We're out and about again today, off to London for the London Internet Exchange #LINX member meeting.

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. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/11...

We've one CI pipeline not working with a hidden dependency on the docker registry. Handily we self-host jitsi for our internal planning meeting and our self-hosted IRC and accumulated bots is also working fine.

@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...

The Green Web Foundation has re-verified that we use renewable energy in our UK and EU zones. app.greenweb.org/directory/#1...

.UK Members' Conference 2025 - Nominet Nominet members' conference 2025 - bringing you a packed agenda, covering the current and future state of .UK.

Off to the @nominet.uk members conference today. nominet.uk/uk-members-c...

we want to embed it in a dark box in a datacentre to be fair, but we sympathise.

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.

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...

Big Carl lifts the dome onto second reactor | Hinkley Point C YouTube video by EDF 🇬🇧

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.

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...

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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#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...

Five primary school girls with a Robot Dragon laden with rubber ducks.

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...

There isn't an easy solution. For treasurer@ we recommend a POP box to collect the mail from. For exploders like committee@ the recipients providers need to whitelist the server forwarding the email in.

Here's our stats on how bad the problem is. www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04...

We've implemented AI crawler blocking, take at look at how bad the problem is for a service provider with tens of thousands of sites. 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...

I hear you're an awesome company. Stay awesome.

Today's special request from the order form.

Another day with multiple staff focused on blocking abusive AI crawlers rather than doing something useful.

tabby cat investigating letters spelling common email anti-spam acronyms

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...

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...

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.