boringproxy
localtunnel
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1,137 | 18,325 | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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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
localtunnel
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
localtunnel/localtunnel - Written in node. Popular suggestion.
- Localtunnel – Expose Yourself
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Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams
Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:
OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...
Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...
ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...
I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.
[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel
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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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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
localtunnel — Expose locally running servers over a tunnel to a public URL. Free hosted version, and open source.
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Localtunnel – Expose Yourself to the World
Localtunnel used to be a nice tunnel. It has gone through some enshittification lately.
> tunnel consent page now requires the tunnel creator's public IP in order to access tunnel content
https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/598
There are free non kafkaesque competitors out there.
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Creating Secure Tunnels in Ruby on Rails with Ngrok
I recently went through having to tunnel my development environment to setup an oauth2 flow for a rails integration. I found that using https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel was a better fit.
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Is there any way to let a client test website without giving them the code?
I prefer localtunnel: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel
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Ngrok | Is this solution right for my use-case?
There's also Local Tunnel (http://localtunnel.me)
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Ngrok react app sends request to the web browser's localhost, not where the server
Not sure if it works combined with ngrok: https://www.npmjs.com/package/localtunnel
What are some alternatives?
Gravitational Teleport - The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
clipboard-cli - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)
dqlite - Embeddable, replicated and fault-tolerant SQL engine.
awesome-tunneling - List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
jscpd - Copy/paste detector for programming source code.
ngrok - Expose your localhost to the web. Node wrapper for ngrok.
cost-of-modules - Find out which of your dependencies are slowing you down 🐢
yjs - Shared data types for building collaborative software
gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal
selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet via a simple docker compose interface.
lessmd - A small markdown viewer/converter for unix terminal.