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Mythic Beasts
Company blog · mythic-beasts.com/blogsystemsweb
Mythic Beasts is the company blog at mythic-beasts.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2012, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Rent a Raspberry Pi 3 on a native IPv6-only network”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Mythic Beasts as a UK hosting, colocation and Raspberry Pi hosting provider, and point to its pages for those services.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Managed and unmanaged VPS and dedicated servers, shared web and email hosting, domain registrations and DNS hosting, UK based
Most-linked posts?
- Rent a Raspberry Pi 3 on a native IPv6-only network6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-01-11
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-17
- The secret to great technical support? No support staff.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-21
- /~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-16
- /hosting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-14
- Improving the world bit by expensive bit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
- /order/rpi/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-17
- /blog/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-21
What Hacker News says?
After seeing one of these a few years back I started moving everything. I decided to look for a local provider (UK) in the end and landed with https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ and couldn't be happier. The one issue I've ever had was answered by a human within the hour. I'm done cheaping out on critical stuff now, especially the domain registrar.
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on “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains”Submitted Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn as a story · 23 points
HN discussionMythic Beasts rents rpi servers: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/ - there is a niche for it
Comment linking /order/rpi/
on “I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster”Submitted Rent a Raspberry Pi 3 on a native IPv6-only network as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIn general terms I absolutely agree with you. However, the subtleties might have more to do with ensuring that the intent of the transaction is adhered to rather than not. The first assumption is that your intent is to capture accurate user information and the user's intent is to give it to you. With that established, it is a good idea to apply sensible measures at your end in order to ensure that the data is accura…
Comment linking /~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate
on “Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations”Submitted The Death of Email Forwarding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIPv6-only hosting typically includes a shared IPv4 reverse proxy for backwards compatibility, eg. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/topics/proxy (Mythic Beasts host the Raspberry Pi website; I am a friend and customer.)
Comment linking /support/topics/proxy
on “The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses”Submitted The secret to great technical support? No support staff. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI host a static website on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it's been running very well for about 3 years. It's static HTML and it also serves files. It's hosted by a provider with a "Pi Cloud". https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi The website is https://www.piwheels.org - it's a Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users It's served over 20M downloads, which is 70TB. Currently serving 1.2M downloads a month (4.4TB). A…
Comment linking /order/rpi
on “8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75”Submitted Great technical support? No support staff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt’s absolutely good enough. My web host will let you rent them as dedicated servers, and has used them as hosts themselves: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-o...
Comment linking /blog/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/
on “8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75”Submitted Mythic Beasts: Human support requires human queries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOver here in the UK companies like mythic-beasts would provide what you are asking about. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting You would add your CMS of choice (Wordpress running on the shared server or rsync up a local set of static files) I'm assuming companies like this must be ten a penny in USA.
Comment linking /hosting
on “Let's make the web personal again”Submitted The secret to great technical support? No support staff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMythic beasts, https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting
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on “Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning”Submitted Improving the world bit by expensive bit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMythic Beasts have had ARM-based dedicated servers in Europe since 2017 (over 5 years ago). They have many Raspberry Pi with POE and NAS (no SD cards). (Mythic Beasts also host the Raspberry Pi web site.) https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2017/03/02/hosting-a-webs...
Comment linking /blog/2017/03/02/hosting-a-website-on-a-raspberry-pi-with-ipv6-and-ssl-part-1/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Mythic Beasts do PI hosting with their own servers, and are a very good company: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi
Comment linking /order/rpi
on “Raspberry Pi Colocation”At the moment I'm using Mythic Beasts in Cambridge - they're not cheap but their support is fantastic - https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ . I have a few friends using https://www.ukservers.com/ and https://www.veloxserv.co.uk/ who are more reasonably priced. I've also used m247 in the past, but had terrible experiences with them since they were acquired by private equity - network & support quality went really downhill…
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on “Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting”I've seen https://www.mythic-beasts.com/article/about do pi hosting
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on “Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation”Mythic Beasts[1] do Pi hosting for a reasonable amount - not used them personally, but I have been recommended to them by a few people [1] https://www.mythic-beasts.com
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on “DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing”I always use: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ipv6/health-check ?
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on “IPv6 Watch”I found your comment fairly cryptic. I had a fun twenty minutes trying to work out what you meant, and under what circumstances dotless RHS in email addresses might be legal. I suppose from the RFC, sure the spec doesn't require dots. For example, I can use http://mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate and verify that sure, '1@2!3!4' is a valid RFC822 email address. But I think e.g. UUCP-style addreses are a p…
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on “Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation”Technically you could get a Raspberry Pi at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi for £7.25 per month but I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind. It's not exactly a server and it's not going to win any prizes for performance.
Comment linking /order/rpi
on “SolidRun 1U 2 node Arm Server”If i need a UK host i always jump to Mystic-beasts. They are great, i use them even for Colo. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/servers/virtual
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on “Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services”Mythic Beasts (a great UK hosting/colo service) just announced an IPv6-only virtual server - £5/month instead of £7/month for IPv4: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/vps6
Comment linking /order/vps6
on “Anyone Who Still Thinks IPv6 Won't Happen Isn't Watching the Measurements”> if your users don't have IPv6 (and many don't), you're basically screwed Not quite, all you need is to make sure the proxy/CDN is dual stack, like what this IPv6-only hosting service did: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/ Cloudflare, for example, does this for free: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/proxy-ipv4-visitors-to-ip...
Comment linking /order/rpi/
on “Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8”There are some that do Raspberry Pi hosting, like https://www.mythic-beasts.com , but it's the older Pi3s for now and they're not as cheap as e.g. Scaleway. It seems they've at least looked into Pi4s: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-o... . Maybe there are other companies that host other SBCs.
Comment linking /blog/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/
on “Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in December 2020”Pete is also known for running https://www.mythic-beasts.com/
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on “Upside-Down-Ternet”As an aside, would there be some value in providing an email validator API? Something exactly like this: http://mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate but which would respond in an easy-to-parse way (JSON|XML). It could be enriched by detecting common spelling errors ('gmial' or 'g-a53'* instead of 'gmail' for example). *: gmail when typed on a European laptop with numlock on.
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on “Real Email Validation”
