ngrok VS plexargod

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.

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.

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.

ngrok

Tunnels (CloudFlare vs. Ngrok)

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.

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.

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.

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

Would likely be cheaper than the static IP route. There's tons of guides for getting around CGNAT with Plex and other utilities. You could use an argo tunnel, but Cloudflare gets kinda sad proxying video.

I'll be dropping Mullvad and either switch to AirVPN or i'll try and get Plexargod up and running. Looks like a pain in the ass, most port related things imho but we'll see. https://github.com/danielewood/plexargod

Q: Can I still access Plex/Jellyfin/Emby and share it with others? A: Yes, and you don't need Mullvad just for this use-case. Cloudflare Argo tunnel is probably more efficient for that, since it's a large CDN and will have better latency in general. There is a tutorial.

You never needed Mullvad just for Plex behind NAT in the first place, but it can continue to work: https://github.com/danielewood/plexargod

plexargod may still be an option if you want to abuse their generous free tiers, lol.

You can kind of skirt the restrictions using something like plexargod I suppose.

The ToS come into play when you sign up for an account. You can still achieve the tunnels without creating any cloudflare accounts as seen in plexargod. It helps makes an otherwise manual process easier.

This guy even has a script to use without a domain name: https://github.com/danielewood/plexargod