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How does this compare to https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ ?

by Arcsech 9y ago

peterburkimsher 9y ago
Is localtunnel free?
- Arcsech 9y ago
  It seems to be!
inconshreveable 9y ago
same idea, great project. folks pay for ngrok because it's 1) more reliable 2) more featureful
notgood 9y ago
I stopped used ngrok because after opening the tunneled URL a few times it started saying "too many HTTP requests" on a Wordpress project. It is common for those to have many images/scripts/styles so throttling by number of requests makes ngrok unusable, now a happy localtunnel user.
- clouddrover 9y ago
  ngrok has connection limits, but not request limits. Perhaps your server wasn't using keep-alive connections? It's mentioned in the pricing FAQ (scroll down a bit from this link): https://ngrok.com/product#pricing https://ngrok.com/product#pricing
  - notgood 9y ago
    Yeah my bad, it probably says "connections limit", I don't have time to figure out my way around it; other devs may do thought. I just want to fire it up and start working.
- tootie 9y ago
  This seems like a problem with WordPress.
  - notgood 9y ago
    Not really, it was just an example; you can leave blank the Wordpress theme index.php and that way it makes only that request; the problem is more general: Real web sites are full of content (AKA. full of requests), that's just how it is.
- tootie 9y ago
  This seems like a problem with WordPress.
nthcolumn 9y ago
One is a big proprietary blob of mistrust and the other is localtunnel? Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's a shame I can't build and make sure that everything is above board. Good on you though , that apart it seems a great idea well implemented. Easy to throw stuff up for prospects/clients in an agile way without having to talk to devops. Why not free as in bird? It is already free as in beer.
- deleted 9y ago
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- nthcolumn 9y ago
  My bad totally - I could not see the link? Great effort!

How does this compare to https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ ?

peterburkimsher 9y ago

Is localtunnel free?

Arcsech 9y ago
It seems to be!

inconshreveable 9y ago

same idea, great project. folks pay for ngrok because it's 1) more reliable 2) more featureful

notgood 9y ago

I stopped used ngrok because after opening the tunneled URL a few times it started saying "too many HTTP requests" on a Wordpress project. It is common for those to have many images/scripts/styles so throttling by number of requests makes ngrok unusable, now a happy localtunnel user.

clouddrover 9y ago
ngrok has connection limits, but not request limits. Perhaps your server wasn't using keep-alive connections? It's mentioned in the pricing FAQ (scroll down a bit from this link): https://ngrok.com/product#pricing https://ngrok.com/product#pricing
- notgood 9y ago
  Yeah my bad, it probably says "connections limit", I don't have time to figure out my way around it; other devs may do thought. I just want to fire it up and start working.
tootie 9y ago
This seems like a problem with WordPress.
- notgood 9y ago
  Not really, it was just an example; you can leave blank the Wordpress theme index.php and that way it makes only that request; the problem is more general: Real web sites are full of content (AKA. full of requests), that's just how it is.
tootie 9y ago
This seems like a problem with WordPress.

nthcolumn 9y ago

One is a big proprietary blob of mistrust and the other is localtunnel? Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's a shame I can't build and make sure that everything is above board. Good on you though , that apart it seems a great idea well implemented. Easy to throw stuff up for prospects/clients in an agile way without having to talk to devops. Why not free as in bird? It is already free as in beer.

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nthcolumn 9y ago
My bad totally - I could not see the link? Great effort!