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You can currently click-to-install Wordpress, Drupal, etc on these hosting providers, but I think the real Sandstorm value is in the sandbox model. In order for
by mnutt 11y ago
You can currently click-to-install Wordpress, Drupal, etc on these hosting providers, but I think the real Sandstorm value is in the sandbox model. In order for host-your-own webapps to take off there will need to be active marketplaces, and any time you get enough activity there will be bad actors. We currently rely on Wordpress being trustworthy, but Sandstorm gives us much better controls to ensure it does what it says it will.
Sandstorm also gives a standard interface for writing apps, where you don't have to worry about authentication or user management. And in the future I can imagine apps exposing their capabilities to other apps in the same way your mobile device can have multiple mail readers, browsers, etc.
- kentonv 11y agoOf course, even trustworthy apps have security problems that can expose your whole server -- Wordpress being a common culprit. But apps like Wordpress and Etherpad on Sandstorm has been basically unaffected by upstream security bugs. See: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/security-practices/#wordpress https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/security-prac...
- tacone 11y agoThank you, I missed that. So the value proposition lies in the sandboxing, and being open source.
- kentonv 11y agoIt's also easier to use: Most "one-click installs" basically give you a VM with the thing running with a default config, but you usually still need to SSH in to maintain it, edit config files, etc. Sandstorm is intended to be easy enough that a non-technical user can install and use apps.