In October 2016 there was a significant denial-of-service attack (DDoS) which took down Netflix, Reddit, Twitter and other big internet services. People noticed slow-loading pages, not being able to watch a favourite show, or even having their whole work day grind to a halt: The whole internet is down, so I guess I'm calling a snow […]
Read moreBytemark Cloud is the hosting platform that we built in-house back in 2012. Originally, it was called BigV, but in 2016 we felt the time was right to rebrand the service. Bytemark Cloud still provides the same reliable hosting that you’ve used since 2012, it’s just a new name! Though we will, of course, continue to ship […]
Read moreAs you may know, if you’ve already read our increasing diversity in recruitment post, the way we hire at Bytemark is different. This is owing to our meticulously-designed, anonymous, decentralised recruitment process. We’ve previously outlined some of the reasons why we wanted to make this change to lead the way to a fairer, people-focused local […]
Read moreWe’ve been testing the latest release of Symbiosis Jessie over the last few months with Let’s Encrypt and we’re proud to say it’s now packaged with Symbiosis! What is Let’s Encrypt? Let’s encrypt is a free, open certificate authority (CA) that launched at the end of 2015. It provides SSL/TLS certificates via an automated process […]
Read moreOur York data centre is comfortably above the maximum level of flooding from a predicted 1 in 1,000 year event, according to an independent report that we commissioned before purchasing the building.
Read moreBytemark’s offices have long been missing that vital component of any tech company – wall-hanging status displays! I want to show off some vital statistics: support satisfaction statistics for our support team, the railcams, sales figures – all that movie stuff! Easy, right? We’ll use Raspberry Pis to do the display – they’re cheap and easily hidden behind […]
Read moreMe and my girlfriend Clara have just come away from the AutoTrader “Science Fair” and we’re full of thoughts, ideas and reflections and wanted to get them down somewhere. We heard about the event at Barcamp Manchester last weekend, and decided to go along to get a better understanding of how AutoTrader works. I know […]
Read moreFOSDEM stands for the “Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting”. It is a conference aimed at, you guessed it, developers working on Free and Open Source software. The event takes place once a year, over two days in Brussels, Belgium. It has been running since 2000. Bytemark staff have attended several times, so I’ve […]
Read moreFive years ago, I purchased a £250 set of cookware that comes with a “lifetime guarantee” but after only a few years of use, the non-stick surface began to degrade…
Read moreIf you’ve ever struggled with the accuracy of your cheap digital watch, then you’ll know that electronic devices can be quite rubbish at keeping the time. Computer hardware is also terrible at keeping the time. Without constant correction, all our servers would gain or lose about one second per day. It’s essential that all our […]
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