Sandstorm
Infrastructure
personal cloud platform
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
6 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.42.
Execution: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Apps install and start almost instantly in the demo
From 2 comments
That's pretty amazing how quickly I can install and use an app. It's instant as far as I can tell. This makes me wonder - how difficult would it be to take a sandstorm app and…
nobodysfool on HNoh wow, the demo setup 'just works' and is instant to install apps. this just keeps getting better and better.
etherealG on HN
Handled load well with hundreds of demo users
From 2 comments
Thanks for the load test, HN! :) Several hundred users spinning up instances of apps yet the server hasn't broken a sweat... We still need your help to get this into production.…
kentonv on HNSure! Over the course of yesterday we had 747 demo users launch 952 app instances. Currently we're on GCE for price reasons, though we're looking for good non-Google, non-Amazon…
kentonv on HN
Easy to move data between hosts
From 1 comment
Oh, maybe I misunderstood. I thought your question was about porting code, not data. It's actually incredibly easy to move your data between Sandstorm hosts. Unlike, say, Google…
kentonv on HN
Objections
Source build is complex and hard to set up on Debian
From 2 comments
Thanks for the detailed reply. I had some trouble building the whoke thing under Debian stable (with a 3.14 kernel from backports, trying to force everything to work under my…
e12e on HNActually, the mrt tool wasn't a problem (I had node installed from source, in my home-dir under opt from before -- working quite well with xstow. Meteor not installing from…
e12e on HN
Meteor setup is complicated
From 1 comment
Actually, the mrt tool wasn't a problem (I had node installed from source, in my home-dir under opt from before -- working quite well with xstow. Meteor not installing from…
e12e on HN
Requests
Add WordPress to the app list
From 1 comment
I was trying out Demo and found that you do not have it wordpress in sandstrom apps list. Hope to see it soon.
techaddict009 on HN
Better documentation for publishing from Hacker CMS
From 1 comment
No, (not other than the api docs for devs, that explains that one way to publish from (any) app is to push files to /var/www). I guessed the dns-setup was one way -- wasn't sure…
e12e on HN
Questions
How to keep ported apps updated from upstream
From 1 comment
So the apps on the platform are essentially forked versions of open source apps. If you're editing the authentication system, which I imagine can introduce some heavy…
chatmasta on HN
Whether apps can port data to other hosts
From 1 comment
But I see on some I can download data - couldn't I just port away by copying the data over? Anyway, this is wonderful. One more question - web2py?
nobodysfool on HN
Alternatives named
Camlistore
From 1 comment
A cool project in this "own your data" space is https://camlistore.org/ which IIUC could be the storage system of a personal cloud. OT: I always take a closer look when a…
swah on HN