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September 2026: bTen goes live

An SGI Challenge S, collected from the UK in person, took its first member logins over SSH. Before that, a member's slow tunnel turned into an audit of how bandwidth limits are applied everywhere. And we worked out what Nekotopia actually is and rewrote the site to say it.

Late May 2026: the network grows up

The busiest fortnight so far: a public looking glass and a public wiki, self-service DNS and BGP, nColo moving onto our own ASN, a fairer bandwidth model, and uptime history on the status page. It was also the fortnight we spent the most time finding our own mistakes, so the "what broke" list is long.

April 2026: the mesh becomes the backbone

April retired the cloud transit layer between regions, so traffic between hubs now runs over our own WireGuard and BGP mesh and nothing else. nColo spread to Ohio and Singapore, signups got abuse protection that doesn't depend on a third party, and vintage browsers got a proper way onto the modern web.