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by HerraBRE 15y ago
http://pagekite.net/ is a FOSS Python implementation of a similar concept. It doesn't rely on SSH, supports SSL and CNAMEs and works quite well on Windows as well as Linux/OSX. You can sign up for service or run your own. I am the author.
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Thanks for the kinds words and the feedback! We got lots of good feedback last time these things were discussed here on HN, hopefully we've made some progress. Regarding our quick-start, we absolutely agree - except rather than simplify it
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Maybe you are at an airport. Or an internet café. Or visiting a client and don't want to mess with his network. Many web developers are actually pretty mobile these days.
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Clickable: http://pagekite.net/ Thanks for the mention! Yes, we're similar, but built on more flexible technology (pure python, no ssh required, we can tunnel more protocols, etc.). Our solution is also open source for those who don't wa
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
3rd party URL shorteners are a horrible idea. Why would we add an extra point of failure to links, the very fabric of the WWW? Sites that maintain their own shorteners for their own content are really the only acceptable exception, and even
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
"You have no less than 10 comments in this single submission, and in seven of them you are explaining why someone who is a potential customer is wrong about what they are asking for." Really? I thought I was saying we were was working on al
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Agreed, I really want more pictures myself. It'll happen!
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PageKite meets Showoff; benefits of competition(pagekite.net)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Regarding the name, I actually think PageKite is an excellent name and we are lucky to have it. It's googlable, we got the .com for cheap, it's a strong trademark. If I draw you a picture of your site flying like a kite in the clouds, conn
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
I totally agree, this thread is probably the best exposure any of our projects (I'm the PageKite guy) could ask for. The idea is clearly communicated, pros and cons and alternatives discussed... and now it's a tiny bit easier to explain to
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Ever heard of Skype? Bittorrent? Servers are awesome. :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Indeed they are! Our problem is we have a highly technical, generic tool and we've found it really hard to write docs that are easy to understand and a product description that resonates with people. It's quite eye-opening to see how someon
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We are working on all of these things - we've been iterating from 'geeks only' to 'polished product' and just aren't all the way there yet.
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Not really. Just because you have an IPv6 address doesn't mean you won't be trapped behind a firewall that blocks incoming connections. And when you have an IPv6 address and want to show something to a person with an IPv4 address... then yo
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you go about your search?
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Check out http://pagekite.net/ , it's Python and it runs on Windows just fine. We are working on a user-friendly installer and GUI, but if you're a developer you don't need that. :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Yes, we have been struggling with a focus problem. We're techies (and our tech is good), not marketing gurus. :-) Thanks!
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
This is very similar to my http://pagekite.net/ , which offers both free trials and CNAME records already. They're out-marketing me, I guess. It looks nicely done!
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
From my (admittedly outdated) knowledge of the Google recruiting process (I worked there as an engineer and interviewed about 100 people), this was almost certainly NOT an engineer. Google isn't going to waste an engineer's time going throu
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
The relevant link would be http://www.immi.is/ and the caveat is that the laws have not yet been passed by parliament. Hopefully they will! :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Good luck! :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Fair 'nuff. :-) In case you want to revisit, dynamic DNS is really easy to do with PowerDNS (an alternative to bind). I've combined PowerDNS and Redis with a relatively thin Python glue layer, and then done some funky things with subclassin
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Why is this not done as an RBL-style DNS-based blacklist? The queries are cheaper, mirroring and distributed caching are already built-in... Of course, charging for access would be harder, but you can still offer to sell people lists who do
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Remember, we don't know anything about your ex co-founder. So it's not about whether you are right or wrong, it's just that anything to do with him is completely irrelevant - bringing him up can only hurt your pitch. The fact that you comp
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
When I clicked, permission was denied and I got a button suggesting I request access. I suspect that's not what you want. :-)
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
Without knowing anything about the relationship between you and your previous co-founder, the fact that you don't hesitate to bad-mouth him and his contributions in public like this is a huge, gigantic red flag. Re-read your post with the w
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
The downvotes I'm getting seem to indicate others agree I'm off the mark here. Perhaps I was too inflammatory, perhaps people just don't understand my analogy. Let me try again without the hyperbole. :-) My point is, DropBox advertise pro
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
You are able to access the data from elsewhere once you've "uploaded it". But wait, that never happened because it was a dup. That means they can, and will, decrypt somebody else's data to serve your request. Cute, huh?
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
On the face of it, the security of DropBox encryption seems comparable to that of a padlocked room - where the key to the padlock is kept hidden in a safe place. Except the key is actually kept under the doormat, because people keep going i
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by HerraBRE 16y ago
That's a strange attitude. I don't see how a paid Dropbox account is somehow riskier than a leased vserver. As long as you abide by the ToS, anyway.

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