VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits

Looking through the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CypherpunkArmory&#x2F;punch&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tunnel&#x2F;tunnel.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CypherpunkArmory&#x2F;punch&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tunnel...</a> seems to indicate it is just using a ssh connection between your box and their server and then forwarding traffic through that ssh connection.<p>If ssh is blocked by your IT admin, this will not work. In that sense this isn&#x27;t doing any holepunching. In a more traditional definition of holepunching it meant to establish connection between two machines behind NAT stateful firewall and neither have static public IP addresses.<p>Also, looking at the code, there seems to not much emphasis on security w.r.t ssh host key verification or bootstrapping the chain of trust with pre-verified credentials etc. Weird choices for a project with cypherpunk in it&#x27;s name.

This might actually be the future of running net-accessible stuff on your own devices, if the NAT-imposed unreachability continues to cement itself as the default expectation for people. Great that they have a free tier.<p>Though I think you can do this same thing with many existing tunnel providers too, no?

Remind me of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagekite.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagekite.net</a> It has been around for a few years, their software is open source and seems pretty easy to use. Never used it myself though so I cannot vouch for their stability.

How does this compare with ngrok?

The website looks good. Obviously early days since pricing is missing. Probably sorting out value proposition, how much they can get away with charging, etc.<p>A comparative point is using Cloudflare and Argo tunnel which I&#x27;m currently using.

Another option is algo using wireguard with port forwarding.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo</a>

Looks like a service many people could use -- I wish you the best of luck in your business endeavor!<p>One thing I&#x27;d like to see though is an &quot;About Us&quot; page, if you&#x27;re a company; or maybe a link to your LinkedIn profile if you&#x27;re an individual...<p>Reason: I&#x27;d like to know more about the company or person that I&#x27;d be dealing with before establishing a business relationship... I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not alone, either.<p>Anyway, best of luck with your venture!

It might just be me, but I feel like this is going to be abused...badly. I know of a few other similar services that have had huge abuse issues.

Never shut down your computer and pay electricity bills. Don&#x27;t reboot too often. And hope your provider will never have outages.<p>I know, some people have always-on computers, some people have low prices for electricity, some don&#x27;t care about downtimes. But it all looks so fragile, too many &quot;if&quot;.<p>If only there would be some layer to cover main instance outages...

There&#x27;s also Serveo[0] which I use pretty often:<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serveo.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serveo.net</a>

Nice but be careful when doing this sorta thing at work that you dont compromise company policy.

This is an option to build on demand disposable openvpn endpoints on AWS <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ttlequals0&#x2F;autovpn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ttlequals0&#x2F;autovpn</a>

Typo: “With our low cost, secure tunneling service, you won&#x27;t run out __or__ reasons or ways to use it.“

I&#x27;ll try to use this for SSH.<p>What&#x27;s the best way to embed an SSH session inside of HTTP requests?