@strypey I think it's rather that there are several Linux container projects and most people know only of #Docker and #OpenVZ. #Sandstorm is relatively unknown, and Oasis is the primary place to host it. . Hopefully, if Sandstorm shuts down entirely, they'll create a migration path to other containers and hosting.
@geniusmusing I can’t say what is best, but you do have #KVM and #Proxmox among your options. Perhaps Citrix is the reason so many hosters are switching away from #Xen?
Others: I think #OpenVZ is closer to containers than virtualization, and if you’re looking toward containers, you’ll also want to consider #Lxc / #Lxd, #Docker, or even #Sandstorm.
@geniusmusing @brandon I have never tried either #Sandstorm or #PageKite, though I’ve wanted to do so for a few years. I first heard of Sandstorm when the project founder was interviewed on Decentralize.org.
@geniusmusing @brandon I think #Sandstorm ( sandstorm.io ) is something like a one-click install with some of the characteristics of a container.
The proxy thing I mentioned doesn’t really exist yet (possibly excepting #PageKite), but I imagine they would do just like the present shared hosts do: as part of your set-up, they ask you to choose a domain name, which they register for you and then automatically map it to your server space.
@geniusmusing @brandon Most shared hosting is abominable, so I don’t think shared is the answer. Maybe some sort of proxy that acts as a public face (the IPv4 / IPv6 that everyone sees), but relays to a home-hosted device (likely running something like #Sandstorm; even techpeeps have trouble with #Docker, so it should be out of the question entirely).
If #sandstorm solves a problem very few people had, that's because today the problem is so intractable that very few people are even aware that they would like to have that problem.
Projects like sandstorm are essential for finding the solution to #userops, and userops is essential for solving decentralization.
Decentralization is essential for saving the internet.