FRμIT: Federated RaspberryPi MicroInfrastructure Testbed
The participants of the FRμIT project, distributed Raspberry Pi cloud. FRμIT is an academic project that looks at building and connecting micro-data-centres together, and what can be achieved with this...
View ArticleCapacity upgrades, cheaper bandwidth and new fibre
We don’t need these Giant Scary Laser stickers yet. We’ve recently upgraded both our LONAP connections to 10Gbps at our two London POPs bring our total external capacity to 62Gbps. We’ve been a member...
View ArticleRetrosnub Acquisition
A Mythic Beast eating a Retrosnub (artists impression) Just before Christmas we were approached by Malcolm Scott, director of Retrosnub, a small cloud hosting provider in Cambridge. His existing...
View ArticleVMHaus services now available in Amsterdam
Integration can be hard work Last year we had a busy time acquiring Retrosnub, BHost and VMHaus. We’ve been steadily making progress in the background integrating the services the companies provide to...
View ArticleIPv6 updates
Last Thursday we went to the IPv6 Council to speak about IPv6-only hosting and to exchange information with other networks about the state of IPv6 in the UK. @UKIPv6Council & @Mythic_Beasts Pete...
View ArticleIPv6-only hosting in 2020
It’s now nearly five years since we started offering IPv6-only hosting, and what started out as a source of interesting projects for enthusiastic early-adopters has become our default for most hosting...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 4 now available in our Pi Cloud
Our PI 4 servers all wear the Power over Ethernet HAT to provide power and cooling to the CPU. We’re now offering these in our Raspberry Pi Cloud starting from £7.50/month or 1.2p/hour. Since the...
View ArticleIPv4/IPv6 transit in HE Fremont 2
Back in 2018, we acquired BHost, a virtual hosting provider with a presence in the UK, the Netherlands and the US. Since the acquisition, we’ve been working steadily to upgrade the US site from a...
View ArticleMagPi magazine: how to host a website on a Raspberry Pi
The MagPi Magazine has published a new article on how to set up a web server using a Raspberry Pi hosted in our Pi Cloud. The article walks through all the steps necessary from ordering a server on our...
View ArticleIPv4 to IPv6 Proxy API
We’ve been offering IPv6-only hosting for eight years now, and have demonstrated that many websites can forego the expense of an IPv4 address pretty easily. You can read more about how we do this on...
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