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Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by kuschku »

marmaduke wrote: post #171
kuschku wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This issue gets worse if you use multiple such services. Alone they’re worth it, but combined... IRCCloud (4$) + ngrok (10$) + some free libre email provider (5$) + 1TB cloud storage (10-12$) + ... The combined cost for me is enough that it’s cheaper to rent a dedicated octacore xeon with 16G ram, 250G SSD and 1TB HDD and unlimited traffic with a 1Gbps line[1], and run my own services. In fact, I pay less than 50% of…

The 4 core ARM would probably be sufficient for what you listed, unless you anticipate touching the data going through (e.g. transcoding videos etc)

Yup, that’s exactly what I’m doing now. Transcoding video, even on the fly (after I had several situations where lag with Twitch was massive, and with nginx-rtmp and nginx-hls it was nil)

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by veesahni »

skrebbel wrote: post #23
roylez wrote: post #15

I used to use Ngrok, then I discovered ultrahook which gives me a persistent endpoint, for free.

Do you know how they're able to offer it for free?

I created UltraHook.. it only replaces ngrok for the simple "receiving webhooks on localhost" use case.

The infrastructure is sponsored by Enchant.com

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by djangowithme »

Lazare wrote: post #61

A lot of people seem to be a bit confused about the point of ngrok, why it's useful, how much it costs, etc. Let me try and help out. :) For me, the killer feature for ngrok is testing/developing webhooks. You install ngrok in your dev environment, start it up, then point the stripe/slack/whatever webhook your working on at the generated URL. ngrok will 1) proxy that request through to your dev environment 2) log the…

I actually tried using it in this manner recently to test paypal IPN notifications, but it seems like paypal denies the SSL installed on the ngrok urls. I had to setup a domain with letsencrypt instead.

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by fadzlan »

jlg23 wrote: post #107
ageofwant wrote: post #66

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If your users have to resort to this they are not getting the appropriate support they need. If your users are productive, chances are so is the company that pays both your salaries. If your users have to fight their infrastructure people to get their jobs done, you company will fail to effectively compete against those companies that don't. It astounds me that so few security people understand what their purpose is:…

> If your users have to resort to this they are not getting the appropriate support they need. I don't see where this follows from. "private repos" and "testing" implies "local testing" for me. If that implication does not hold, the development workflow is seriously screwed. (Don't tell me there is no money for a local test setup when you have dedicated IT security.) And in my experience, more often than not, it is s…

> If you really, really need to poke holes into your firewall can easily that with ssh to a cheap vm hosted at your trustworthy hoster. If ssh ain't enough, nc and socat are your friends.

Wouldn't that still be the same, considering ngrok is just doing the tunneling. In this case, ngrok is your trusty hoster. You can park your trust into your own VM in Digital Ocean, or you can park it at ngrok.

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