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I realise I'm coming late to this thread, but just a quick question. But before that, a big hats off to everyone involved with Sandstorm! Making a complex platf
by Santosh83 10y ago
I realise I'm coming late to this thread, but just a quick question. But before that, a big hats off to everyone involved with Sandstorm! Making a complex platform point & click is a huge achievement.
Coming to my question, does Sandstorm have a HTTP server in its app platform? While I'm excited about other apps like file sharing/storage, what I badly want to do right now is to be able to host my site on my own machine using dynamic DNS. Of course I can manually do it by installing Apache, configuring it, updating a dyn DNS provider and so on. But if Sandstorm offers a point & click way to do that, then I'm hooked right now. :-)
- kentonv 10y agoIf it's a static site, there are several apps on Sandstorm you can use: Wordpress, Ghost, Hacker CMS (which is basically Jekyll + a text editor), or Davros (to which you just upload files, and then publish). Any of these will allow you to connect an arbitrary domain to the page so that visitors see your content only, not Sandstorm. If you want to publish a dynamic site with server-side logic, that's currently not supported, unless you are OK with it being a Sandstorm app, which means everyone who accesses it will see the Sandstorm UI around it.
- Santosh83 10y agoThanks for replying! A static site over SSL on a custom domain will do well right now. Presently I'm using the motley combination of uploading HTML to Github Pages and placing Cloudflare in front (for SSL on a custom domain), but Sandstorm sounds like a more painless alternative that would also mean I retain my data on my own machine. Will get started!