Re:Slack Platform Launch
by deathanatos on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:21AM
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The "How It works" wasn't bad. But nonetheless: does it distribute itself (and my data) to multiple VMs? If it needs a kernel patch, does it appropriately plan downtimes and/or shed load from that VM before applying the patch and rebooting the instance? Does it handle machine failure?
We actually have tools to do all of that -- high-availability / fault tolerance / load balancing, entirely transparent to users, admins, and apps -- which we use to run Sandstorm Oasis, our paid managed hosting service. We are working on productizing these tools to sell to "enterprise" customers.
For individual users and small companies, single-machine Sandstorm is pretty reliable, but it's true we don't automate kernel updates yet (which will require scheduling reboots for off-hours). We'll add that eventually.
(Sorry for all the vaporware.)
Have you tried Sandstorm? It is in fact designed to be "set it and forget it" -- that's a major goal of the project. Everything auto-updates, you never have to edit config files, it can configure DNS and fetch/renew SSL certificates automatically, installing new apps takes one click, etc.
(Disclosure: I'm the lead developer.)