Leveraged buyouts and achieving corporate synergies

We’re happy to report that after nearly four years we’ve finally finished the migration of the very last Black Cat Networks related services into our network so everything is now hosted and managed by Mythic Beasts with no remaining dependencies on third party providers. The migration has taken quite a lot longer than we first predicted, in particular auditing and cleaning up the various special cases that had been implemented for specific customers took a very long time.

During the migration we’ve achieved the following,

• Upgraded hosting & shell account customers from Debian Etch to Lenny, including a major hardware upgrade providing them with a five or tenfold increase in disk allocation.
• Merged mail handling providing the superset of spam handling features offered by the Mythic and Black Cat setups to all customers.
• Provided domain registration and DNS management including secondary DNS and a management API to all customers.
• Merged our database services providing Mysql 5 & 5.1 to ex Black Cat customers.
• Reenabled IPv6 for management & DNS.
• Provided dedicated rebranded shell hosting servers for specific customers.

Our next ‘synergy’ is to merge the Mythic UML, Xen and Bluelinux Xen services into a single KVM based platform and to merge the remaining Bluelinux hosting services into our hosting platforms. We’ve already done their co-location, bandwidth and domain names.

Of course if anyone reading this happens to own a virtual server, colocation or shared hosting business with a customer base of technically competent users that they no longer want we’d be interested in talking to you.