Comment by rank0
3 years ago
I actually am familiar with takingnames.io and boring proxy! I found it the other day when I was searching for the easiest way to self-host my own side project. I think you've got something promising and I encourage you to keep working on it. Ultimately, for my use case I went with fly.io just because it was so damn easy to use.
I am hesitant to commit to a tunnel-based approach because where I live I get frequent power/internet outages. I feel that tunneling is something I would explore if my application grows to the point where I would need to rent space in a colocation.
Right on. fly.io is awesome.
I don't think tunneling is necessarily a great for hosting large-scale things or businesses that need to stay online 24/7. Self-hosted services for friends and family or maybe small communities seems like the best use case.
It's annoying but ok if your media server goes down once in a while.