The key thing is the user has somewhere they can actually run your app; it doesn't necessarily have to be their own box, it could be one provided by a friend or

The key thing is the user has somewhere they can actually run your app; it doesn't necessarily have to be their own box, it could be one provided by a friend or a hosting provider. That said: > The one way out of this trap would be if we could come up with some kind of server that did not require administration To a large extent this is actually a goal of sandstorm. I'd contest some of your requirements though: /Nobody/ has 100% uptime, even AWS. And most individuals are not in a position where an outage is going to cost them millions. It might suck, but people trudge through worse problems with their PCs; no reason a personal server ought to be different. So I think the bar is a bit lower than you suggest; I think it's possible to get a server to the point where it can be "administered" by someone who's capable of "administering" a laptop. We're obviously not there yet; you still need to set up a Linux box before installing Sandstorm itself, and we don't really have a great Story wrt backups yet. But Sandstorm itself is already mostly fire-and-forget; it auto-updates itself, our security track record is rock solid, and I can't remember the last time I had to do anything that felt like sysadmin work for my Sandstorm box. There are a couple things I think still need to happen: 1. We need an automatic backups & recovery story. 2. We can't require the user to install Linux first; we'd need a "sandstorm distro" so folks can do the whole business together. The OS should be hardened by default and self-update with Sandstorm, as well as integrate with the admin panel for scheduling reboots. 3. Ideally, there'd be hardware you could buy that's just already running the sandstorm distro.