[HN Gopher] Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok al...
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Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alternative
CRProxy is a new reverse web proxy service. We have a generous
free plan that includes the ability to use custom domains and semi-
custom sub-domains. We have reasonably priced plans with good
bandwidth and no additional usage charges. Please give it a try
and let me know what you think. Thank you, David
Author : crproxy
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-06-26 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (crproxy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (crproxy.com)
| watchdogtimer wrote:
| Looks nice, but what I would really like is a proxy service like
| this that would proxy inbound mail traffic in addition to web
| traffic so I can run my own mail server behind CGNAT.
| crproxy wrote:
| I wonder if you can do that with ngrok's TCP tunnels?
| desio wrote:
| Nice, this is exactly simple enough for what I need. I used to
| really like ngrok, but I feel like it outgrew me. I'm loving this
| trend of minimal, focused projects.
| fm2606 wrote:
| I've rolled my own following this tutorial[0]. If you are into
| self hosting this is a great alternative. I am developing an app
| that a 3rd party site requires a redirect URL. Since my app is
| still in development and only running locally (and only when
| active developing) this is what I use.
|
| [0]https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-
| ngrok.htm...
| iamhamm wrote:
| Have to echo others: closed source, allowing internet access to
| my system, and unproven just doesn't meet any minimum safe risk
| thresholds. I wish you luck, but the market is tight and being
| unable to assess code quality would be an absolute non-starter
| for my personal and professional buying decisions.
| crproxy wrote:
| Personally I agree with your opinion. While we're open to code
| audits with clients, it's not a scalable solution. We'll
| consider open sourcing the client code.
| p2hari wrote:
| Hi David, Just signed up. Emails are hitting spam/junk folder.
| Better to move your provider.
| crproxy wrote:
| Interesting. I'm using mailgun and I've always had pretty good
| luck with them. I'll have to look into it.
|
| Thank you for the report.
| p2hari wrote:
| Also, not able to download the clients.
| https://crproxy.com/download/ links to 404 pages
| crproxy wrote:
| Sorry, the repo was private. It should be fixed.
| p2hari wrote:
| Hi again, the downloads for mac os requires signature :(
| crproxy wrote:
| The Mac binary signing is something we completely
| overlooked. We'll have to look into it right away.
| antoniomika wrote:
| There are many (always) free alternatives out there which you can
| find in a fairly comprehensive list at awesome-tunneling [0]. I'd
| caution anyone as there's always risk with downloading a no
| sources available binary as well, but this looks like it could be
| another good option!
|
| My favorite two projects currently in the tunneling space are
| sish [1] and bore [2]. sish is more full featured and utilizes
| ssh for handling proxies (disclaimer: I wrote sish) while bore
| maintains a client/server but all sources are available for both.
| They're written in Go and Rust respectively. There's even a
| publicly accessible instance of bore running. You should submit a
| PR to include CRProxy in the awesome-tunneling list, I know
| Anders might do that as well as he's normally around these parts
| :)
|
| [0] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
|
| [1] https://github.com/antoniomika/sish
|
| [2] https://github.com/ekzhang/bore
| roshanj wrote:
| Thank you for writing sish! We've been using sish as a self-
| hosted alternative to ngrok because of how easy and flexible it
| is to configure and because it allows us to tunnel to devices
| without installing any extra device-side software (since it
| uses ssh). I highly recommend it among all the other great
| projects on the awesome-tunneling list
| crproxy wrote:
| Thank you for letting me know.
|
| I understand the issue with a closed-source client. It wouldn't
| be trivial to open source at the moment, but maybe there's a
| path to do it in the future.
| greatgib wrote:
| Sorry if it does not fit your business model, but in my
| opinion, it would be plainly stupid for anyone to download
| and run on his machine or server a closed source binary,
| especially when the goal is to give remote access through
| internet. And so that it is expected that this binary will
| open a direct pipe with the internet...
| lmc wrote:
| Literally any pre-compiled binary could do nefarious
| things... why make a big deal out of this one?
| m00dy wrote:
| this is a very competitive market.
|
| good luck
| uzzal2020 wrote:
| No token! 10 minutes up
| crproxy wrote:
| You may want to check your spam folder. We've had an issue with
| that already. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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