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boringproxy
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
boringproxy - Designed to be very easy to use. No config files. Clients can be remote-controlled through a simple WebUI and/or REST API on the server.
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Ask HN: Remote access to self hosted (back end) software
A couple of years ago I've read about this concept (already forgot the name) of using self hosted data storage with cloud applications. Basically, you as a user own your data and only permit the cloud hosted web application to access it - not own it and manage in your place.
I was thinking of a similar concept, but in the context of mobile applications. The mobile application itself would be accessible via Google Play Store/App Store, but the backend part would be self hosted and upon opening the application you would have to specify how to access backend.
My question is how would I access the backend if it was hosted on let's say rpi running in the living room? It's not a problem as long as I'm within the home network, but I want seemless network transition without losing access when entering/leaving the house. I was told https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/zero-trust/access/ could be used for this, but to me it sounds a bit of an overkill to use it for an application which would never be used by more than a single digit amount of users. This looks more suitable: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy
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Replacing cloudflare with a VPS - My journey
Finally, someone in the above project's Matrix room directed me towards boringproxy - https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy. This was the perfect solution. No lengthy config files, easy to use and automate. Setup took about an hour and now everything is back up and running. The only issue I've currently not been able to solve is one where the container seems to use a websocket, which keeps getting timed out (will investigate this further tomorrow).
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zrok: open-source peer-to-peer sharing (alternative to ngrok)
boringproxy (GitHub) is my go-to for this sort of thing. Thanks for the announcement, I'll have to do a head-to-head and see how they stack up!
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What's the best way to host Jellyfin to be accessed outside of my home network?
boringproxy
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Consider SQLite
Am I the only one who thinks SQLite is still too complicated for many programs? Maybe it's just the particular type of software I normally work on, which tends towards small, self-hosted networking services[0] that would often have a single user, or maybe federated with <100 users. These programs need a small amount of state for things like tokens, users accounts, and maybe a bit of domain-specific things. This can all live in memory, but needs to be persisted to disk on writes. I've reached for SQLite several times, and always come back to just keeping a struct of hashmaps[1] in memory and dumping JSON to disk. It's worked great for my needs.
Now obviously if I wanted to scale up, at some point you would have too many users to fit in memory. But do programs at that scale actually need to exist? Why can't everyone be on a federated server with state that fits in memory/JSON? I guess that's more of a philosophical question about big tech. But I think it's interesting that most of our tech stack choices are driven by projects designed to work at a scale most of us will never need, and maybe nobody needs.
[0]: https://boringproxy.io/
[1]: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy/blob/master/datab...
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Architecture issue with running a docker project - have a crack at this
This is the commit that seems to have broken the docker image.
- Problems with port forwarding
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How does pricing work for making and maintaining a website?
I use https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy
ngrok
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DeepSeek-R1 on Cursor with Ollama
By default, ollama serve endpoint http://127.0.0.1:11434 but if u direct using the endpoint to cursor i cant be used. so we need ngrok. U can download and login it, then they instruct u to login via auth token.
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Automatically Send User Data to Database with Clerk OAuth
Sign up on ngrok's official website and follow the installation steps provided in the Setup & Installation section.
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Building a Webhook payload delivery service in Go
Or even use something like ngrok to make the application securely available on its global edge in seconds.
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Building an Ollama-Powered GitHub Copilot Extension
ngrok
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Alternatives to LocalTunnel for exposing your local development server to the internet
Website: https://ngrok.com
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Exposing Your Django Project to the Internet Using Ngrok
Sign up at ngrok.com
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Ngrok on Ubuntu under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
To use Ngrok, you will need to authenticate with your Ngrok token. Sign up at ngrok.com if you don’t already have an account. After logging in, copy your authentication token and run:
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🗂️ Master SQL Review with GUI 🎛️, GitOps 🖇️ and API 🔌
ngrok is a reverse proxy tunnel, and in our case, we need it for a public network address in order to receive webhooks from VCS. ngrok we used here is for demonstration purposes. For production use, we recommend using Caddy.
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Creating a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide
Use tunneling to expose your localhost to the internet via VS Code's Port forwarding, ngrok, or similar.
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A Simple Approach to Building a Group Video Chat Web App
If you want to test with multiple devices you'll need a way to run the project with a secure https connection. You have two options: setup a custom SSL certificate for your local device; or use a service like ngrok, which creates a tunnel out from your local machine and provides an https url. In my experience this is one of the simplest ways to run a publicly accessible https secured webserver on your local machine.
What are some alternatives?
selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet via a simple docker compose interface.
zrok - Geo-scale, next-generation peer-to-peer sharing platform built on top of OpenZiti.
dqlite - Embeddable, replicated and fault-tolerant SQL engine.
smee-client - 🔴 Receives payloads then sends them to your local server
timeliner - All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally -- DEPRECATED, SEE TIMELINIZE (link below)
playit-minecraft-plugin - A Minecraft plugin to make your server public without port forwarding using playit.gg
Gravitational Teleport - The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
pyngrok - A Python wrapper for ngrok
rqlite - The lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite.
frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
yjs - Shared data types for building collaborative software
playit-agent - The playit program
