how active is sandstorm development?

[Mystie3K_1988]

Hi I found out about sandstorm through a reddit post on opensource software and started looking into it.  Im looking to start a new business and want to use something that's inhouse and easy to maintain and use with friendly UI.  I have a technical background and can figure our alot of 10s of alot of troubleshooting but most of those that maybe working for me most likely will not. I want to start using sandstorm as our primary app server on a local host but dont want to committee just yet since I dont see alot of activity on marketing and updating of information from Sandstorm.  Most of the youtube videos are 3-6 years old and even the blog post on the sandstorm site are over 2 years old.  Thanks

Jordan  

[Jake W]

Sandstorm transitioned from being a startup to a community open source project a few years ago. Most of the "marketing" in various channels was done by the old company. Sandstorm is both being maintained and app development is continuing, and we have some plans this year for some significant announcements and progress for the project. At least in the very short term, if you are looking for a significant pace on new features and development, you may be disappointed. But we do have a plan for the longer term, and many of us here rely on Sandstorm on a daily basis and do not find anything comparable in terms of security and maintainability. Sandstorm servers tend to be pretty fire and forget once they're set up correctly, mine has been running without issue or any real maintenance for five years at this point, and several are close to a decade old.