Comment on Anyone running Sandstorm?

HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• verstra@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The revolutionary thing about sandstorm is not all that much about administering hosting as it is about integrating deeply with applications.

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  • HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t get that part. Can you explain it please?

    Dokploy has a list of hundreds of “templates” where you basically one click install a working docker container with said app. But there is no deeper integration.

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    • verstra@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For example, ether pad (document editor) is a) packaged to be single-click deployable on sandstorm (this is similar to dokploy), but also b) modified so that it runs each document as a “grain”.

      In sandstorm, “grain” is some chunk of data + an instance of the app running. So when you open a document, it will spawn a new process for it on the server and attach the data needed to that process (similar to how you would attach volumes to docker containers). This grain is isolated from other open documents, which is good for security, but also good for development:

      • apps don’t need to handle the organization or storage of documents (they just write to a dir and sandstorm associates it with the grain),
      • apps don’t need to handle user auth or permissions,

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