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2025.08.17

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A while ago, I played on with XAMPP on our downstairs Windows box that handles all our films and TV.
I wanted to have a look at the feasibility of hosting xbomber.co.uk on that server, in light of the seemingly ever-mounting costs of hosting.

It was clear that, even with a huge amount of work, the results of doing that were going to be sub-optimal.
That having been said, the solution did work, fundamentally.

So I tweaked on with the firewall on our router, which I wasn't expecting it to allow me to do, and presented the downstairs machine to respond to any HTTP(S) requests arriving at the router.

Since our hosts have made such an enormous deal out of continuing to host xbomber.co.uk at its current footprint, I don't want to grow the footprint of the site significantly.

At the same time, there are a number of big files that I've wanted to host for a long time, so I applied the XAMPP method to making those files available.

The first thing that it lets me do is provide a mirror for the AI upscale versions of the show.
You can just stream the mp4 files straight over the browser.
I tested it from an outside connection and it streams really quickly.

Downloading those files from megaupload or mega or whatever it is, is a huge ordeal now.
The site gives you a 'quota' without telling you how big it is.
After downloading a few episodes, it decides that that quota is exceeded and forces you to wait for 4, 5 hours, or even more than that, before allowing you to download a few more.
In the end, I gave up and found it far easier to track down where I'd put those files when I downloaded them in 2023.

It also lets me put up all source code and releases for X-Bomber the Game, as well as some videos of the game, taken at different stages of development.

The machine gets put into hibernation overnight sometimes, but generally, it should be available and might be an extra string to the bow.

What I feel like doing is getting something like a little toughpad with a decent-sized SSD and SD card and have it perform the same job.
That way, it would eat a lot less power: allowing it to be kept on permanently, and it could back up internally anything from the SSD to the SD card.

Anyway, with all that being said, check out what's on there. I have a few more things I want to add when I find them.

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