cloudflare-ddns VS Sandstorm

Compare cloudflare-ddns vs Sandstorm and see what are their differences.

cloudflare-ddns

🎉🌩️ Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service based on Cloudflare! Access your home network remotely via a custom domain name without a static IP! (by timothymiller)

Sandstorm

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager. (by sandstorm-io)
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cloudflare-ddns

Posts with mentions or reviews of cloudflare-ddns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.
  • Dynamic DNS
    3 projects | /r/CloudFlare | 13 Jun 2023
  • HTTPS connections complain they're insecure as grocy is using self-signed LSIO cert instead of that provisioned by LE.
    1 project | /r/grocy | 6 Jun 2023
    For anyone following, this was due to user error in that DDNS was not up to date. For reference, https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns
  • Setting up a new domain with YunoHost
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 3 Jun 2023
    If you want to reach them online, think about using something like this: https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns, this will automaticly update your A records. Or try Cloudflare Tunneling: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps
  • Raspberry Pi services on the internet
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 May 2023
    Try using this container instead. You can update the A record of your domain to your IP dynamically and use a CNAME for each subdomain so you don’t have to worry about them not resolving when your IP changes.
  • ClouDDNS: Turn your CloudFlare-powered site into a DDNS.
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 May 2023
    Can you explain the difference between that and this? https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns
  • Remote Access
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 10 May 2023
  • Problems with cloudflare tunnels (502 Bad Gateway) + alternatives?
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 7 May 2023
    I'm out of ideas on this one, I especially don't understand why the nginx container works and others dont. Besides that I'm interested in other solutions that don't route my whole traffic over one company and limit my traffic/what I am allowed to do and what not. Would a dynamic dns updater also work for my use case? Something like cloudflare-ddns?
  • New to home servers
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 7 Apr 2023
    My recommended roadmap for thing to host is: 1. ssh access * with certificates only and fail2ban config 2. local pihole DNS server * learn how to set up your router and devices to use pihole as DNS 3. local jellyfin * no encryption, no external access, just a simple local network service * Create a domain in pihole, that points to your local jellyfin service 4. a ddns-service like cloudflare-ddns * buy a domain and use ddns to point it to your IP 5. nginx-proxy-manager * enable port-forwarding in your router and obtain a lets-encrypt wildcard-cert for your domain * Create a docker network and add npm, jellyfin, and all other web services that you want to access via your domain * Create a proxy host for each service, give every service a unique subdomain, and use your wildcard cert to enable SSL/TLS for all your services * add all those subdomains to your ddns * use pihhole to point the subdomains to your local IP
  • if I buy a domain name can I point it at my homelab that has a dynamic IP?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Apr 2023
  • Public File Sharing through Tailscale?
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 20 Mar 2023
    Tailscale recently introduced funnel which is currently in beta and has bandwidth limits so it might work, but personally I'd use a dynamic DNS service like cloudflare-ddns

Sandstorm

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sandstorm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-31.
  • Website Impersonating a Desktop Environment
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023
    Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/
  • Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    RemoteStorage https://remotestorage.io/ seems to be trying to do this too

    I also really like the https://sandstorm.io approach which goes a little farther beyond

  • Tech Independence
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2023
    They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/
  • Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2023
    I did read from somewhere, that with Wordpress SEO plugins etc some website got to top of search results.

    Those that did website with other tech did not get same results, and thinked how to compete or survive.

    For security, I use Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io fork of WordPress that generates static websites. But that does not work with some interactive plugins.

  • Plunder and Urbit
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2023
    Urbit made the choice to use a bunch of silly new words for familiar concepts, not because they were inventing something so new that there were no words to describe it, but because they wanted to fool people into thinking that's what they were doing. Actually they just spent 10 years trying to do https://sandstorm.io/, but made it 10 times harder than it needed to be by coming up with a wacky new set of programming languages with silly names for everything.

    That's funny, and it is OK to make fun of it.

  • Cap'n Proto 1.0
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2023
    I don't work at Cloudflare but follow their work and occasionally work on performance sensitive projects.

    If I had to guess, they looked at the landscape a bit like I do and regarded Cap'n Proto, flatbuffers, SBE, etc. as being in one category apart from other data formats like Avro, protobuf, and the like.

    So once you're committed to record'ish shaped (rather than columnar like Parquet) data that has an upfront parse time of zero (nominally, there could be marshalling if you transmogrify the field values on read), the list gets pretty short.

    https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-... goes into some of the trade-offs here.

    Cap'n Proto was originally made for https://sandstorm.io/. That work (which Kenton has presumably done at Cloudflare since he's been employed there) eventually turned into Cloudflare workers.

    Another consideration: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/2#issuecomment-...

  • 1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
  • Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 5 Jun 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 5 Jun 2023
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 4 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cloudflare-ddns and Sandstorm you can also consider the following projects:

proxmox-scripts

yunohost - YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

docker-cloudflare-ddns - A small amd64/ARM/ARM64 Docker image that allows you to use CloudFlare as a DDNS / DynDNS Provider.

NextCloudPi - 📦 Build code for NextcloudPi: Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Rock64, curl installer...

no-ip - A shell script that works as Dynamic Update Client (DUC) for noip.com

sovereign - A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.

nordvpn - NordVpn Docker Client

Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi

docker-traefik-cloudflare-companion - Automatically Create CNAME records for containers served by Traefik

DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn - qBittorrent docker container with OpenVPN client running as unprivileged user on alpine linux

Ansible-NAS - Build a full-featured home server or NAS replacement with an Ubuntu box and this playbook.