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2026.07.05

All content regarding X-Bomber the Game itself has been moved to my home box. This way, all versions released since the very beginning of the project, 24 years ago, are now all accessible for download, in the same place, where anyone would expect to find them, rather than having to look for them on a different server, along with all source code for the game, and more gameplay videos than I was comfortable uploading to shared hosting.

The Large File Area link, pointing to xbomber.com, which I am using to direct traffic to my home box, has been removed from the right-hand menu, which tidies things up there a bit.

Additionally, I have been testing running phpBB on the home box for a number of weeks. I deployed a new phpBB with a database and a MariaDB user that mirrors the SFXB Forum deployment.

Since I want to minimise resource wastage when running the site from a home server, it was essential to see if the AnubisBB phpBB extension would work on it as well. I got the sodium PHP extension enabled and AnubisBB ran great after that.

This weekend, I exported the SFXB Forum database and the file structure across to the home box and, after a little bit of playing in PHPMyAdmin and data_global.php, I have a clone of the SFXB Forum running there happily behind the scenes.

I have a little mail relay from Dynu set up to handle password reset and registration emails.

In the meantime, the attackers seem to be starting to get the message that they will be getting nothing out of the SFXB forum whatsoever with AnubisBB standing in the way. Server CPU and bandwidth utilisation has seen a huge reduction, and is continuing to tail off.

I don't plan to move the forum anywhere at the moment for a few reasons, but the migration of a copy of the forum database is needed to allow the final phases of migration of the site across to its intended new home.

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