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Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alternative
CRProxy is a new reverse web proxy service.
We have a generous free plan that includes the ability to use custom domains and semi-custom sub-domains. We have reasonably priced plans with good bandwidth and no additional usage charges.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Thank you,
David
- p2hari 4y agoHi David, Just signed up. Emails are hitting spam/junk folder. Better to move your provider.
- desio 4y agoNice, this is exactly simple enough for what I need. I used to really like ngrok, but I feel like it outgrew me. I'm loving this trend of minimal, focused projects.
- antoniomika 4y agoThere are many (always) free alternatives out there which you can find in a fairly comprehensive list at awesome-tunneling [0]. I'd caution anyone as there's always risk with downloading a no sources available binary as well, but this looks like it could be another good option! My favorite two projects currently in the tunneling space are sish [1] and bore [2]. sish is more full featured and utilizes ssh for handling proxies (disclaimer: I wrote sish) while bore maintains a client/server but all sources are available for both. They're written in Go and Rust respectively. There's even a publicly accessible instance of bore running. You should submit a PR to include CRProxy in the awesome-tunneling list, I know Anders might do that as well as he's normally around these parts :) [0] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling [1] https://github.com/antoniomika/sish https://github.com/antoniomika/sish [2] https://github.com/ekzhang/bore https://github.com/ekzhang/bore
- crproxy 4y agoThank you for letting me know. I understand the issue with a closed-source client. It wouldn't be trivial to open source at the moment, but maybe there's a path to do it in the future.
- greatgib 4y agoSorry if it does not fit your business model, but in my opinion, it would be plainly stupid for anyone to download and run on his machine or server a closed source binary, especially when the goal is to give remote access through internet. And so that it is expected that this binary will open a direct pipe with the internet...
- watchdogtimer 4y agoLooks nice, but what I would really like is a proxy service like this that would proxy inbound mail traffic in addition to web traffic so I can run my own mail server behind CGNAT.
- crproxy 4y agoI wonder if you can do that with ngrok's TCP tunnels?
- m00dy 4y agothis is a very competitive market. good luck
- uzzal2020 4y agoNo token! 10 minutes up
- crproxy 4y agoYou may want to check your spam folder. We've had an issue with that already. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- iamhamm 4y agoHave to echo others: closed source, allowing internet access to my system, and unproven just doesn’t meet any minimum safe risk thresholds. I wish you luck, but the market is tight and being unable to assess code quality would be an absolute non-starter for my personal and professional buying decisions.
- crproxy 4y agoPersonally I agree with your opinion. While we're open to code audits with clients, it's not a scalable solution. We'll consider open sourcing the client code.
- fm2606 4y agoI've rolled my own following this tutorial[0]. If you are into self hosting this is a great alternative. I am developing an app that a 3rd party site requires a redirect URL. Since my app is still in development and only running locally (and only when active developing) this is what I use. [0]https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
- motyar 4y agoI am building something related. Not for your local links or files but for your public webpages. https://ablyhost.com https://ablyhost.com