<story><title>Sandstorm Oasis hosting open beta and App Market</title><url>https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-08-31-oasis-beta-launch.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kentonv</author><text>One thing we&amp;#x27;ll do before coming out of beta is make sure we can scale seamlessly to these impromptu HN load tests. :) Sorry it&amp;#x27;s a bit slow right now! You can, of course, install your own and have all the resources to yourself:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sandstorm.io&amp;#x2F;install&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sandstorm.io&amp;#x2F;install&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Things seem a bit better now. This is our first time getting a load spike on Blackrock (codename for the &amp;quot;enterprise&amp;quot; add-on to Sandstorm which can utilize a whole cluster, which we use to run Oasis); previously, it was always the single-machine demo.&lt;p&gt;The problem is, ironically, we haven&amp;#x27;t parallelized our front-end yet. We are seamlessly distributing the apps themselves across way more machines than we actually need, but everyone is connecting to the same instance of the surrounding management UI. Honestly I didn&amp;#x27;t prioritize this because I thought our reinvented-wheel back-end was going to be the bigger bottleneck -- whoops.&lt;p&gt;Luckily this shouldn&amp;#x27;t be too hard to fix as the front-end is &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; stateless. Probably fixed in a week or two.&lt;p&gt;Nice to know what to focus on, in any case! Thanks for testing!</text></comment>
<story><title>Sandstorm Oasis hosting open beta and App Market</title><url>https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-08-31-oasis-beta-launch.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yebyen</author><text>I have been happily using the Sandstorm closed alpha since it was available to Kickstarter users and I have been very happy with the progress.  There are still places where the grain paradigm needs to be fleshed out a bit, like I had to explain to my old boss that in Sandstorm Gitlab there is no user, there are only allowed and deleted web keys...&lt;p&gt;When I explained that we might use this for a project or two, if it turned out to be too much trouble to put our GitLab instance with all its private repos on the public internet, he understood right away.&lt;p&gt;Up until that point he basically knew what Sandstorm was all about and he was saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t think Sandstorm is for us.&amp;quot;  I&amp;#x27;m still not sure he sees, but the free open beta and the app store will probably work to help convert him.  He loves app stores.  (Why not add, a shameless plug for Synology DSM OS with its Docker Hub support!)</text></comment>