An edtech practitioner reports that Sandstorm is winding down its paid Oasis hosting, prompting users to consider alternatives for self-hosted web apps. The change leaves the project without revenue, and the post surveys other platforms users can explore as they migrate from Sandstorm servers.
Opensource.com profiles Sandstorm, a free, self-hosted platform for deploying open-source web applications, as part of a series on open-source productivity tools. Based on the reviewer’s hands-on testing, the piece describes the platform’s architecture and its catalog of applications available for deployment.
Sandstorm Development Group secures seed financing led by Quest Venture Partners. The company plans to use the funding to develop its app marketplace, improve security, and build a hosting service.
Sandstorm, an open-source personal-cloud platform led by former Google engineer Kenton Varda, aims to give web users more control over the applications they use. The article describes Sandstorm’s early development, crowdfunding campaign, and planned model for hosting apps and offering them through an application store.
