Mythic Beasts Ltd

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

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.

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...

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...

Tabby cat scratching a post.

Remember we all must do our part to maintain Internet reliability so we have an un-interruptable supply of cat pictures. #FloofDayFriday

Our internal chat is still self hosted IRC. Complete searchable logs, no per user fees, all communication is encrypted. Stays working even when 'the cloud' is down.

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

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...

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]!

CPU graph showing a 95% fall in usage after blocking an AI scraper

This CPU graph from one of our systems clearly shows when we blocked a particularly nasty #AI scraper which was denial of servicing one of our customer systems.

We're not disclosing exactly how we detect and block AI scrapers on our shared hosts but we get graphs like the one below. We've seen >95% of traffic be abusive #AI scrapers at times.

We thought you had to change it to Pastword2024 before you were allowed to set the new one.

For extra online security, I change my online banking password once a year. As well as securing my personal information, it also frees up my old password for others to use. So if anyone wants some passwords that I don't use anymore, feel free to avail of Password2022, Password2023 and Password2024 👍

If your website tells me I need to use the app, you won't make me use the app, you'll make me stop using the website

Boo! We can be tagged here now too!

Unfortunately due to excessive demand we've had to stop offering five digit customer numbers starting with a 2 for new customers.