sish VS rathole

sish uses ssh tunneling that you can read about in their docs: https://ssi.sh/

Tunneling services can be considered as a solution in some cases. Services like ngrok, frp, localtunnel and sish create a public endpoint that tunnels communication to your local endpoint via a tunnel client.

My favourite one is https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

It uses SSH as the method of opening the remote tunnel to the public server.

Why not forget about Cloudflare and a VPN but get a 3 euro Hetzner server and install https://github.com/antoniomika/sish for dynamic DNS through SSH + Traefik with a DNS resolver and have yourself a wildcard certificate. This way you can host any service from home as long as you run a port forwarding service through SSH with a one liner on Ubuntu. Better yet make an alpine docker image with a command to route traffic to your local service for even more isolation. 😘

Personally I’ve been using sish[1] recently, lots of ngrok alternatives out there now, especially as the pricing went a bit weird

[1] https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

i used to use a similar tool called inlets but they removed the open licensing. i now self host a sish server (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish) which also uses ssh for the reverse tunnel client. so much simpler!

- Sish : Because I don't want to pay for ngrok anymore (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish)

They could create a tunneled connection. Take a look at ngrok.io or ssi.sh

rathole?

There is also this: https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

I always struggle with the iptables rules that are needed for that. I recently stumbled on Rathole, which seems to take care of that for this specific usecase, but haven't tried yet. https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

Rathole is also a simple lightweight solution if you're open to alternatives to haproxy.

Very minimalist, but rathole would work if you have a public facing VPS as well => https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

If you want to expose a local port on the vps you can use rathole.