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New improved IPv6 site tester
We’ve just given our IPv6 Health Check a significant overhaul. IPv6 is coming, and there’s a lot more to being ready for it than adding an AAAA record and enabling IPv6 on your web server. Google are...
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We were asked on Twitter to add a page describing exactly how to get 10/10 on our IPv6 domain readiness checker, so here it is. 1. Add an IPv6 address to your web server The first step is to get your...
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IPv6 support in the UK
Recently Mythic Beasts went to the first meeting of the UK IPv6 Council, a non profit group to assist in rolling out IPv6 across the UK. There was a rapid exchange of knowledge, ideas and progress...
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iOS9, IPv6, £20pa off v6 only VMs
tldr; Apple say IPv6 support vital, we offer £20pa off any VM that is IPv6 only. Apple have announced that as of iOS 9, all apps require support for IPv6 and must run on an IPv6 only network. The...
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UK IPv6 Council Forum, 2nd Annual Meeting
September 2015: 2.5% of the UK has native IPv6 Yesterday was the second meeting of the UK IPv6 Council. Eleven months ago Mythic Beasts went along to hear what the leading UK networks were doing about...
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IPv4 to IPv6 Reverse Proxy & Load Balancer
IPv6-only in the cloud just became possible We have been offering IPv6-only Virtual Servers for some time, but until now they’ve been of limited use for public-facing services as most users don’t yet...
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IPv6 Graphing
it’s a server graph! One of the outstanding tasks for full IPv6 support within Mythic Beasts was to make our graphing server support IPv6 only hosts. In theory this is trivial, in practice it required...
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IPv4 is so last century
A scary beast that lives in the Fens. Fenrir is the latest addition to the Mythic Beasts family. It’s a virtual machine in our Cambridge data centre which is running our blog. What’s interesting about...
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Decimal points are important
Ben at Raspberry Pi wanted to use his new vanity domain rpf.io, as a URL shortener rather than the URL of the common big services. The easy solution was to use an existing service on a paid account...
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Hosting the Raspberry Pi 3 launch, on a Raspberry Pi 3
Four years ago we sat on the phone while Eben Upton pushed the button to launch his educational computer, the Raspberry Pi, and we joined them on a fairly remarkable journey. “How do you sell and ship...
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IPv6 support in the UK
Recently Mythic Beasts went to the first meeting of the UK IPv6 Council, a non profit group to assist in rolling out IPv6 across the UK. There was a rapid exchange of knowledge, ideas and progress...
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iOS9, IPv6, £20pa off v6 only VMs
tldr; Apple say IPv6 support vital, we offer £20pa off any VM that is IPv6 only. Apple have announced that as of iOS 9, all apps require support for IPv6 and must run on an IPv6 only network. The...
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UK IPv6 Council Forum, 2nd Annual Meeting
September 2015: 2.5% of the UK has native IPv6 Yesterday was the second meeting of the UK IPv6 Council. Eleven months ago Mythic Beasts went along to hear what the leading UK networks were doing about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IPv4 to IPv6 Reverse Proxy & Load Balancer
IPv6-only in the cloud just became possible We have been offering IPv6-only Virtual Servers for some time, but until now they’ve been of limited use for public-facing services as most users don’t yet...
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IPv6 Graphing
it’s a server graph! One of the outstanding tasks for full IPv6 support within Mythic Beasts was to make our graphing server support IPv6 only hosts. In theory this is trivial, in practice it required...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IPv4 is so last century
A scary beast that lives in the Fens. Fenrir is the latest addition to the Mythic Beasts family. It’s a virtual machine in our Cambridge data centre which is running our blog. What’s interesting about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Decimal points are important
Ben at Raspberry Pi wanted to use his new vanity domain rpf.io, as a URL shortener rather than the URL of the common big services. The easy solution was to use an existing service on a paid account...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hosting the Raspberry Pi 3 launch, on a Raspberry Pi 3
Four years ago we sat on the phone while Eben Upton pushed the button to launch his educational computer, the Raspberry Pi, and we joined them on a fairly remarkable journey. “How do you sell and ship...
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The little computer that did
At the end of March we migrated the Raspberry Pi website from a very big multi-core server to a tiny cluster of eight Raspberry Pi 3s. Here’s a bit more detail about how it worked. The Pi rack not...
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Let’s Encrypt IPv6-only
Let’s Encrypt on a v6-only host One of the much requested features for Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates is support for IPv6-only hosts. Whilst this is promised in the very near future we’re happy to...
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