Subj : Re: Crazy BBS connections
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 05 2022 16:32:47

On 4/5/22 08:09, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
 >> I would probably just pay for ngrok pro, a similar service, or host
 >> on a VPS if your residential ISP won't let you use those ports.
 >
 > ...
 >
 > https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html
 >
 > Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse
 > tunnelling

Cool, been thinking of doing the same on a cheap VPS.

 > Ngrok is a fantastic tool for creating a secure tunnel from the
 > public web to a machine behind NAT or a firewall. Sadly, it costs
 > money and it's proprietary. If you're a developer, odds are that
 > you're already renting a server in the public cloud, so why not
 > roll your own ngrok?
 >
 > It turns out that you can do it using free, off-the-shelf tools,
 > with no sophisticated scripting required!

In fairness I did mention a VPS option, though specifically for hosting. 
Was thinking of something similar instead of NGrok myself, just passing 
80, 443, etc to my local system(s) where 80/443 would be a configured 
reverse-proxy on my local side.

Probaly Caddy over NginX as it's much easier to configure/use.
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