Hosting made Sympl

Sympl is so simple it’s even usable by Cambridge graduates

We’re pleased to announce that we are now supporting the Sympl open source project.  Sympl is a fork of Symbiosis, a platform that makes hosting websites and email on a virtual or dedicated server simple.  Once installed, configuring a new website, or creating a new email address and mailbox, is as simple as creating a new directory.  Web server, mail server and DNS configuration is all taken care of for you.

We’ve already taken the first steps towards integrating Sympl into our infrastructure by implementing support for our DNS API in OctoDNS.  For our next step, we will be adding support for OctoDNS to Sympl.  This means that it becomes possible to use Sympl with our DNS infrastructure, but equally you can use any other provider supported by OctoDNS (we don’t believe in lock in!)

We’re now very pleased to welcome Paul Cammish, the newest member of the Mythic Beasts team.  Paul has considerable experience, having worked at a number of different ISPs since 2000, most recently at Bytemark.  Paul created the Sympl project earlier this year, in order to provide ongoing support and enhancements for the platform.

We’re very excited by the possibilities that Sympl provides, and have some interesting ideas for future developments once we’ve dealt with the immediate priorities of DNS integration, and support for the upcoming Debian Buster release.

The source code for Sympl is now available in our self-hosted GitLab instance.