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I just started playing with cloudflared as a way to tunnel my dev services to the internet-at-large and it generally just works, and costs me $0. Combine that w

I just started playing with cloudflared as a way to tunnel my dev services to the internet-at-large and it generally just works, and costs me $0. Combine that with the Access product on top, and you can have a Google-auth'd tunnel to your machine that can be stood up within ~5 mins.

joshstrange 4y ago
Yep, came here to say the same thing. I've used this to expose projects with https where I need a stable url (to do something like Apple Pay domain verification). It worked perfectly for me. I just have 2 tunnels setup "local.mydomain.com" and "api.local.mydomain.com" that map to the 2 ports I use for those things. It make development that needs https (various browser features) and sharing with others much easier. Localhost can normally bypass these restrictions but sometimes I need to test on an iPhone/iPad/Android and that's where cloudflare tunnels really shine for me.
graderjs 4y ago
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- waihtis 4y ago
  it's a variation of the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM*"- effect *IBM should probably be replaced with something else soon given how irrelevant they've become
- anderspitman 4y ago
  I'm the author of SirTunnel and I recommend Cloudflare Tunnel as the solution for most people today. That said, competition is valuable and I'm wary of ending up in a place where the best solution today becomes the only solution tomorrow and a terrible solution eventually. My main side project currently involves building a viable alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel with features like e2ee, better domain name integration, support for selfhosting[0], etc, but the reality is today they're the best option for most people. [0]: Cloudflare's TOS explicitly forbids hosting non-HTTP content over Tunnel. Which means you're not supposed to do things like running a Plex server or hosting other media. In practice, I haven't heard of many cases of that being enforced.
- agrippanux 4y ago
  I am guilty of promoting Cloudflare, but it's cause I genuinely like most of their products and find they save me/my company significant time - including Tunnels, which I use to host several services like a Stable Diffusion web interface for our art team. That said, their support for NextJS in Pages is pretty frustrating, so if they do have shills that read this, please do something about that :)
- brightball 4y ago
  Honestly, seeing that stuff and then finding myself guilty of it as well got me to buy stock. I haven't seen this many people in tech like a company since Apple started getting popular. After using it, I see why. Makes my life easier for a reasonable price (often free).
- mmastrac 4y ago
  I can assure you that I am not associated with Cloudflare (nor any company right now!), but a fan of the product. I'm working on https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape/ https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape/ right now, and I'm using it to expose my test server to the internet at large from MacBook. It's insanely simple to do.

joshstrange 4y ago

Yep, came here to say the same thing. I've used this to expose projects with https where I need a stable url (to do something like Apple Pay domain verification). It worked perfectly for me. I just have 2 tunnels setup "local.mydomain.com" and "api.local.mydomain.com" that map to the 2 ports I use for those things. It make development that needs https (various browser features) and sharing with others much easier. Localhost can normally bypass these restrictions but sometimes I need to test on an iPhone/iPad/Android and that's where cloudflare tunnels really shine for me.

graderjs 4y ago

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waihtis 4y ago
it's a variation of the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM*"- effect *IBM should probably be replaced with something else soon given how irrelevant they've become
anderspitman 4y ago
I'm the author of SirTunnel and I recommend Cloudflare Tunnel as the solution for most people today. That said, competition is valuable and I'm wary of ending up in a place where the best solution today becomes the only solution tomorrow and a terrible solution eventually. My main side project currently involves building a viable alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel with features like e2ee, better domain name integration, support for selfhosting[0], etc, but the reality is today they're the best option for most people. [0]: Cloudflare's TOS explicitly forbids hosting non-HTTP content over Tunnel. Which means you're not supposed to do things like running a Plex server or hosting other media. In practice, I haven't heard of many cases of that being enforced.
agrippanux 4y ago
I am guilty of promoting Cloudflare, but it's cause I genuinely like most of their products and find they save me/my company significant time - including Tunnels, which I use to host several services like a Stable Diffusion web interface for our art team. That said, their support for NextJS in Pages is pretty frustrating, so if they do have shills that read this, please do something about that :)
brightball 4y ago
Honestly, seeing that stuff and then finding myself guilty of it as well got me to buy stock. I haven't seen this many people in tech like a company since Apple started getting popular. After using it, I see why. Makes my life easier for a reasonable price (often free).
mmastrac 4y ago
I can assure you that I am not associated with Cloudflare (nor any company right now!), but a fan of the product. I'm working on https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape/ https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape/ right now, and I'm using it to expose my test server to the internet at large from MacBook. It's insanely simple to do.