IPv6 only hosting
Last week at the UK Network Operators Forum Pete gave a talk about our IPv6 only hosting, progress we’ve made and barriers we’ve overcome. It’s now available to view online
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PROXY protocol support for our, err, proxy
We’re increasingly using our IPv4 to IPv6 reverse proxy to host websites on IPv6-only virtual machines. One of the downsides of proxying is that your server doesn’t get to see the client’s real IP...
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PROXY protocol + nginx = broken header
Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith i’w gyfieithu. We recently announced support for PROXY protocol in our IPv4 to IPv6 reverse proxy, and happily linked to the instructions for...
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ANAME records
Company policy requires that all blog posts have a picture. We’ve just added support to our control panel and DNS API for “ANAME” records. ANAME records, also known as ALIAS records, aren’t real DNS...
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More bandwidth
We’ve added 476892 kitten pictures per second of capacity. We’ve brought up some new connectivity today; we’ve added a new 10Gbps transit link out of our Sovereign House data centre. This gives not...
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IPv6 Update
Sky completed their IPv6 rollout – any device that comes with IPv6 support will use it by default. Yesterday we attended the annual IPv6 Council to exchange knowledge and ideas with the rest of the UK...
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Backup Upgrade
We’re using AES rather than 8 rotor enigma encryption. We’ve just completed an upgrade to our backup services. We’ve relocated the London node into Meridian Gate, which means for all London hosted...
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Hosting a website on a Raspberry Pi with IPv6 and SSL (part 1)
Our hosted Raspberry Pi 3 servers make a great platform for learning how to run a server. They’re particularly interesting as they only have IPv6 connectivity, yet they can still be used very easily to...
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Hosting a website on an IPv6 Pi part 2: PROXY protocol
In our previous post, we configured an SSL website on an IPv6-only Raspberry Pi server, using our IPv4 to IPv6 reverse proxy service. The one problem with this is that our Pi would see HTTP and HTTPS...
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PHP7 on Pi 3 in the cloud (take 2)
On Wednesday, we showed you how to get PHP7 up and running on one of our Pi 3 servers. Since then, we’ve implemented something that’s been on our to do list for a little while: OS selection. You can...
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We’ve made some improvements to our Raspberry Pi Cloud. Upgraded kernel to 4.9.24, which should offer improved performance and a fix for a rare crash in the network card. Minor update to temperature...
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Cambridge Beer Festival, Raspberry Pi powered Apps for Beer
We drew the architecture diagram for the beer festival on a beer mat. Today marks the first day of the Cambridge Beer Festival, the longest running CAMRA beer festival, one of the largest beer...
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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...
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Capacity 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...
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Retrosnub 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...
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VMHaus 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...
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IPv6 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...
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IPv6-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...
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Raspberry 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...
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IPv4/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...
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