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2026.05.30

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Firstly, I want to say that I've recently received a lot of very kind and lovely emails from Star Fleet fans in the past few days.
I will be replying as soon as I can, once I have 5 minutes of downtime.

The progress of getting site functionality working on my XAMPP home server originally went very slowly since August of last year, but has accelerated greatly since I got an old, cut-down offshoot of the site engine running on the server, earlier this year.

Since the XAMPP box serves as our media server, I need to re-add its 3rd spindle disk, which was repaired and was delivered today.
I will switch the site main menu to point back to xbomber.co.uk temporarily, while the server is down for maintenance.

The SFXB Forum is going to stay on Krystal Hosting ...
There are quite a lot of reasons behind the decision to try and run the site from a home server and make it part of the "small internet".
One reason is the constant demand against the forum from the DDoS botnets, which has been going on for at least a year now, and shows no sign of going away.
This way, we can allocate all performance resources of the hosting account to running the forum, rather than having to guesstimate what share of account resources the forum should be allowed consume and apply that via phpBB's load settings.

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