Literally the most terrifying service for any security-minded operations-focused person. Wonderful tool, interesting and useful in a dizzying array of aspects - but dear lord, I've had some real horrific moments when users told me that they installed it to allow access to their (private) repos for testing.
Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
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Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
please file a false positive bug report against windows defender. there's not much I can do about that if they're misclassifying ngrok
With due respect, shouldn't you be the one filing the report? I mean, that's a potential loss of quite a few clients there...
A report's good, but I care more about assurance of the integrity of the software I was running than having Windows Defender not quarantine my stuff. My build server has been remote-inaccessible all week when a simple 'no compromise of binaries that I know of, quite sure it's a false positive' would have sufficed.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#43Hiya there folks - I'm the creator of ngrok, happy to answer any questions
Happy paying customer :-)
Can you speak to security? I love using ngrok to test stuff in dev that requires SSL without having to setup up SSL. Of course that means it's running through your cert. Obviously one shouldn't run anything protected through your system, but what is your visibility into that traffic?
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 2) Is there any costs associated with this. Do i ever need to pay See https://ngrok.com/product#pricing .
slightly less excited now :(
I'd rather pay a very small amount for something that does exactly what it says on the tin, every time, than some sketchy app that maybe works, or monetizes in weird ways by selling me or my traffic or whatever.
It's a professional tool with real use. That's worth money.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#45Nice tool, but without committing for annual billing (which I don't intend to do, not for the first year of usage) it's $10 a month. My internet connection, my mobile plan, my Photoshop & Lightroom subscription, a huge collection of music (Spotify), 3K~5K movies and TV shows (Netflix), etc., all cost approximately the same. I mean, sure, $120 a year is pocket change for somebody using Ngrok professionally, but that's still super disproportional, compared to, say, monster of a piece of software like Photoshop. I'd probably subscribe for $2, but otherwise, IMO, frp [0] on a $3 VPS [1] is better value, with the extra benefit of being FOSS and having zero limits.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#46How much is the paid service? You could roll your own for around $15/month using an Amazon EC2 T2 micro instance.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#47How much is the paid service? You could roll your own for around $15/month using an Amazon EC2 T2 micro instance.
Or one of the sub-$5 VPS places. Some even have $1 deal from time to time.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#48Nice tool, but without committing for annual billing (which I don't intend to do, not for the first year of usage) it's $10 a month. My internet connection, my mobile plan, my Photoshop & Lightroom subscription, a huge collection of music (Spotify), 3K~5K movies and TV shows (Netflix), etc., all cost approximately the same. I mean, sure, $120 a year is pocket change for somebody using Ngrok professionally, but that's…
I came here to mention Scaleway ARM servers which cost 3/mo with unlimited bandwidth. With reverse SSH tunneling, there's no need for a dedicated service.
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#49Use a hidden service! I manage many intranet servers over tor. You have no problems with nat or firewalls and it is free!
Ok it is slower, but for many things like ssh it's great...
Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does this compare to https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ ?
I stopped used ngrok because after opening the tunneled URL a few times it started saying "too many HTTP requests" on a Wordpress project. It is common for those to have many images/scripts/styles so throttling by number of requests makes ngrok unusable, now a happy localtunnel user.
ngrok has connection limits, but not request limits. Perhaps your server wasn't using keep-alive connections? It's mentioned in the pricing FAQ (scroll down a bit from this link):