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Yes! I just realized that you can do this without any fancy tools!

• davnicwil 7y ago
  Well, the catch is you have to set up and maintain your own server running a proxy :-) I don't think these tools are really claiming to sell anything fancy that you can't fairly straightforwardly do yourself - what you're buying is convenience (saved time and focus) - just pay for this tool and you're ready to go, within minutes.
  • macawfish 7y ago
    Recently I spent an hour trying to get a bunch of "self hosted ngrok alternatives" to work and couldn't figure out any of them. Either I couldn't get them to compile or their documentation had me seriously fooled. Then I found out how easy it was to set up ssh reverse tunneling. Sshd + systemd turned out to be all I needed for a pretty stable and persistent connection from anywhere. I was so satisfied to find that the most common tools out there could already handle this. Yay!
    • eeZah7Ux 7y ago
      Very often the simplest and well-tested tools are more reliable and quicker to use together than yet another fancy tool.
    • alexellisuk 7y ago
      Give inlets a shot if you get time and let me know how you think it compares.
      • macawfish 7y ago
        Seems like it could really be convenient for dev work... I'll keep it in mind in the future!
  • alexellisuk 7y ago
    "just pay for this tool" - it's free, OSS and accepts contributions.