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Engine Yard vs Sandstorm

A side-by-side look at Engine Yard and Sandstorm. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard

Development

Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.

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Sandstorm

Sandstorm

Development

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps. It allows you to run web apps on your own server while isolating them into secure sandboxes. Sandstorm handles authentication, access control, versioning, and backups for the apps.

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