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I have been doing quite a bit of work on the Krystal file area.

I have managed to make it look for and load (if present) some description files located in each folder, and it can also load specific banner images from folders.

Even getting it to do this on a Windows server, rather than a UNIX one took quite a bit of doing because of the differences in how the platforms handle file paths.
It has been a useful learning process, however.

This basic functionality is the first step along the way to making my Windows box more similar in functionality that of xbomber.co.uk's media subsystem, which was recently re-worked a bit internally to make it run on PHP 8.

The XAMPP deployment runs PHP 8 and, with the hassle that Krystal gave me this year, I like the idea of making this website ready to fall back to being hosted on a home server, if it becomes absolutely necessary.

You may have seen lately that certain memory vendors are no longer providing memory to the consumer market and an enormous percentage of memory wafers are going to be committed to expanding 'AI' infrastructure.
A similar situation is developing regarding supplies of CPUs, storage devices and graphics adapters.

It would not surprise me enormously, if, by the time our hosting renewal arrives in February, our hosting company had hiked the prices up substantially to address increasing costs of maintaining their infrastructure.

Some of these deals are set to last until 2030 so we have to proceed on the basis that this will be a long-term problem.

My current plan is to renew our current business hosting arrangement for a further 2 years and use that time to see to what extent we can offload some things onto my home server.

It would be nice to streamline the two services into a single solution, but at the same time, I like the idea of not keeping all our eggs in one basket.

What might be the best thing is to have essentially feature parity between the site running on xbomber.co.uk and the one on my old box Krystal, to make the cutover between the services as seamless as possible.

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