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Ngrok seems like an actual company, while this is...do we even know who/what runs this service?

• LoganDark 3y ago
  Ngrok wasn't always an actual company, I miss the days when their service was affordable.
  • astrodust 3y ago
    It's certainly gone more "Enterprise", but it also paved the way for many other similar services to take hold.
    • LoganDark 3y ago
      Well, enterprises suck. It's all "contact us for this, contact us for that", low limits unless you pay large sums. Really not very attractive anymore. I miss the days when I could expose Minecraft servers for free. The cheapest plan of $10/mo is more than double what I pay for Firefox Relay & reMarkable Cloud combined. edit: nevermind, they've actually raised the cheapest plan to $15/mo! But they used to offer TCP addresses for free, and now they don't allow them at all unless you pay $15/mo for them. Anyway playit.gg exists.
      • dmonitor 3y ago
        $15/mo is silly considering I could easily rent a VPS for that price
        • LoganDark 3y ago
          Yeah, I had a VPS for $13/mo. What's even sillier is that you could rent a VPS for $4/mo (Kamatera) and then use SSH tunneling to forward any port you want to your local machine. In fact, I've done that too. P.S. would not recommend Kamatera for IPv6 or email. They simply don't have IPv6, and you'll have to fight with their support to get a PTR record made if you want to run a mail server. I really do mean "fight", I had to create 5 or 6 tickets before they would let me wade through 2 or 3 different agreements to assure them that I wasn't going to use it for spam.
  • PLG88 3y ago
    You could also use zrok.io. It's an open source alternative which can be self-hosted or has a free SaaS. It also includes cool features like 'private sharing'. I work on the parent project