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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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Easily monitor your Server from anywhere
Many good reverse proxy solutions currently exist on the market such as ngrok and Cloudflare tunnels. They give one the ability to reliably run a tunnel and ensure it does not go down. They also offer the ability to securely access their links using whitelisted IP addresses or by using HTTP Basic Authentication.
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Cloudflare Tunnel: a free ngrok alternative for exposing local Rails apps to the internet
These is a very common problem. Luckily, it's been solved already. My go-to tool for this was ngrok or localtunnel. Both of these tools are great, but they didn't fit my needs perfectly.
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Native App Killer? Why Progressive Web Apps Should Be Your Next Move
Ensure your app works as expected and provides a good user experience by thoroughly testing and debugging. Utilize tools like Chrome DevTools or Firefox Developer Tools to inspect and modify your app’s code, network, and storage. Employ tools like ngrok or localtunnel to expose your local development server to the internet, enabling testing on various devices and browsers.
- Como integrar a API do Mercado Livre
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How To Send WhatsApp Messages with Laravel
ngrok
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Set up a Team Environment for Shopify App Development
Tunnels (CloudFlare vs. Ngrok)
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How to build a WhatsApp AI assistant
We need to make our WhatsApp API accessible on the internet so the trigger.dev cloud service can connect to it. We can do that by running ngrok in a separate terminal.
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Monitoring Celery in Production
This means that Cronitor must have an endpoint that it can reach. Normally, we can't do that when developing on a personal machine. For this tutorial, however, we can use ngrok to establish a tunnel to our local Django application for testing purposes.
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You Can't Follow Me
There are so many weird suggestions in the comments. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ngrok https://ngrok.com/ (there are many competing alternatives as well). It makes exposing local service over HTTPS trivial. It's been used heavily in most of my engineering orgs.
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A quick way to access your local server on the internet
Ngrok: This provides about 2hours on the free account but requires account registration and adding your authtoken, and starting it is as simple as running ngrok http 8080
What are some alternatives?
Gravitational Teleport - The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
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
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
yjs - Shared data types for building collaborative software
frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet with a docker compose interface.
vercel - Develop. Preview. Ship.
rqlite - The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.
playit-minecraft-plugin - A Minecraft plugin to make your server public without port forwarding using playit.gg