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Portal, and the future of self-hosting in the cloud(portal.cloud)
2 points by portalplatform 11y ago|0 comments
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by portalplatform 11y ago
Yes, we initially used containers. We think VMs are a more secure form of isolation, which is arguable. We also want users to have the ability to run apps based on a variety of operating systems and kernels. Portal apps themselves can use c
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by portalplatform 11y ago
The big difference is that with Portal you can run 8 x 128 MB (or 4 x 256 MB) VMs within a single 1 GB memory plan. Running each of your apps in a separate VM on a standard VPS would cost a lot more.
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by portalplatform 11y ago
That's fair, but it's not just a test, you can really use it. In fact, our own domain runs on Portal. Our web server and email server are two simple custom Portal apps I created in a few minutes for our own use. The point of the d
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by portalplatform 11y ago
You can see our old site and product on archive.org if you have any doubts, everything is different, but it does seem true that our idea of Show HN is not quite what the policy is. We'll make only regular submissions from now on. Thank
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by portalplatform 11y ago
I haven't looked at Sandstorm packages in detail yet. I think it definitely should be possible to make a Sandstorm-runner app for Portal. I've experimented with doing this for Docker. It should also be possible to run a full copy
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by portalplatform 11y ago
Thanks. Congratulations to you as well.
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by portalplatform 11y ago
Thank you! (And no, I do not know ocdtrekkie although I am also an OCD trekkie.)
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by portalplatform 11y ago
It isn't. We've been working for 6 months since the last submission, it's a completely different version of the web site and service, and we're open to anyone for the first time. We're not launching to the general p
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by portalplatform 11y ago
We're trying to make it as close to self-managed as a sysadmin running their own machine in a colo. We're not there yet but that's where we're headed. Sandstorm is working on a hosting service as well. The only way you c
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by portalplatform 11y ago
I think we may have gone overboard with the wording there! Updated to more accurately reflect the situation: Current users of the service should expect some downtime and must careful to backup their data during the Developer Release period
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by portalplatform 11y ago
We're hoping we can encourage app developers themselves to support Portal as a platform, and if we can, we will include those apps as "Officially Supported" apps. You're correct that right now it's really only possi
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by portalplatform 11y ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback. We used to list apps that we have got working ourselves but we decided it's not a great idea to try to support a bunch of third-party open source apps ourselves. We hope we can encourage the actual dev
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by portalplatform 11y ago
We're already working with some developers to make personal cloud server apps and really want to encourage more developers to start. There are thousands of apps that need to be written and it's a lot more fun than working in propr
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Show HN: Portal – Personal Cloud Servers(portalplatform.net)
53 points by portalplatform 11y ago|37 comments