I want to show you something rather beautiful:

He is the most interesting terminal in the world.

Behind this simple exterior beats the heart of a beast; the new [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) server that verifies all those lovely accomplishments that are achieved using the system.

Recently I was a bit of a pickle regarding what to do about this server. I originally asked Michael Hall to provision me a server on our Canonical OpenStack (known as ‘CanoniStack’), but this service is really intended for testing OpenStack and Ubuntu, so I needed something that wasn’t going to change as much due to these testing circumstances. With the Ubuntu Accomplishments project still very much in progress, requesting a server for a production environment wasn’t going to work (as this would mean me bugging IS to update the machine as development progresses). As such, I needed something with the convenience of CanoniStack, but that was not intended as a testing environment.

As such, I was running the server on this little baby:

I am! Spartan!

Obviously this wasn’t going to scale, so I reached out to my friends at [Bytemark Hosting](https://www.bytemark.co.uk/) who helped hook me up with an instance on their rather exciting new [BigV](https://www.bigv.io/) cloud service. So far everything is working great. 🙂

This is not the first time Bytemark have been incredibly generous to the Free Software and Free Culture community. Bytemark have also supported [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org), [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com), and various other projects, as well as sponsoring every year of *LugRadio Live*. They have also always provided fabulous service and support; I run all of my servers with Bytemark for this very reason. So, I know this sounds like a bit of an ad, but I felt it was fair and reasonable to give a bit of a shout out to Bytemark for supporting this project, and many others. Thanks, Bytemark!