Sandstorm
Personal server for running self-hosted apps easily and securely.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2026.
Comparisons in Self-hosting Solutions: Cloudron Cloud alternatives, Heroku alternatives.
At a glance
Sandstorm quick facts
- Health score
- 25/100 STALE
- Stars
- 7,077
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager. Sandstorm makes it easy to run your own server."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Sandstorm scores 25/100, #22 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 7,077 stars add 15.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 15.4 / 20
7.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 9
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #22 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between Dropserver (#21) and Easypanel (#23) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | C++, Shell |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 7,077 |
| Open issues | 613 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | sandstorm-io/sandstorm ↗ |
Sandstorm vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Sandstorm (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmos | 95 | 6.2k | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| DietPi | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| DockSTARTer | 83 | 2.6k | MIT | 9 days ago |
| StartOS | 83 | 2k | MIT | today |
| Nirvati | 46 | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Sandstorm (this tool) | 25 | 7.1k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
Sandstorm: common questions
Is Sandstorm still maintained?
Sandstorm had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.