Mythic Beasts gaan naar Nederland
The art warehouses in Amsterdam look much prettier than the data warehouses.
Back in July 2018, Mythic Beasts acquired Bhost, giving us additional virtual machine (VM) clusters in London, Amsterdam and California.
Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve deployed a substantial new VM cloud to Amsterdam, running our own VM platform. Virtual machines in Amsterdam are available to purchase immediately through our website in sizes from 1GB/1vCPU to 160GB/12vCPUs, and with both SSD and spinning rust disk options. Server management and backup options are also available.
Thanks to Brexit-related regulatory uncertainty, some of our existing clients informed us that they must be hosted outside of the UK before 29th March. Deploying capacity on our own platform in Amsterdam means that we can migrate virtual servers directly to the new location.
Once we’ve dealt with the immediate Brexit-driven server moves, we’ll be looking at migrating former-Bhost VMs into this new cloud, giving a significant performance boost in the process.
Deploying the Amsterdam VM cloud is a significant milestone in the integration of the Bhost infrastructure into our own. The integration provides improved performance and redundancy for both Mythic Beasts and Bhost customers whilst simultaneously cutting our operating costs. In preparation for this, we completed upgrades to our core network last October. The existing fibre ring around our three main London sites, which is currently lit at 50Gbps, is now complemented by a 10Gbps ring around London (HEX) ⟺ Cambridge ⟺ Amsterdam ⟺ London (MER). This replaces the old 2x1Gbps connectivity from Cambridge to London with diverse 10Gbps feeds to London and Amsterdam. Our network has gained an additional 10Gbps transit in Amsterdam (NTT) and we are also now connected on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX).
On a trip to deploy new routers, Pete even managed a tour of the city on foot in just over three hours.
Primary reasons for choosing Amsterdam include being a flat country that’s easy to cycle around, a remarkably nice overnight ferry journey and superb boy bands asking us to stay. Secondary reasons are all boring such as a well developed market for data centres and internet transit, a world class internet exchange and remarkably few insane British politicians. We’re looking forward to the first Anglo-Dutch cricket match.