April 21, 2011 at 11:19Easy way to share localhost
Sometimes projects appear looking at which the thought arises: why didn’t I guess to do this before? Something similar you might think of the Showoff.io service . For a web developer, this is a simple and convenient way to test a project on the web and show it to customers by sharing a local server through an SSH tunnel. Just install the program, run the show command with the port number ...
... and get a working URL like https: // you.showoff.io. It works even through NAT.
Five minutes of work is provided free of charge for demonstration purposes, further rates: $ 1 per day, $ 5 per month. When buying a monthly plan, you can even choose a permanent URL for your site, while for the rest it is randomly generated every 5 minutes or 24 hours.
Great startup, don't you think? Simple idea, good implementation. If it were not for the narrow focus on web developers, it could take off like Dropbox, because the idea is basically the same - here you can also share your files through a unique URL and send this URL to everyone.
For those who are interested in the idea, but do not want to pay, you can see a similar localtunnel project on github, which is slightly inferior in functionality, but open source (MIT license).
Another similar project is PageKite (they give 2.5 GB for free, and then $ 1.50 per gigabyte).
UPD As always, the best advice is in the comments . Recommend proxylocal gem . In addition, it is absolutely free, withopen source , so also the author is on Habré ( justlest ).
> gem install showoff-io
> show 3000Great startup, don't you think? Simple idea, good implementation. If it were not for the narrow focus on web developers, it could take off like Dropbox, because the idea is basically the same - here you can also share your files through a unique URL and send this URL to everyone.
For those who are interested in the idea, but do not want to pay, you can see a similar localtunnel project on github, which is slightly inferior in functionality, but open source (MIT license).
Another similar project is PageKite (they give 2.5 GB for free, and then $ 1.50 per gigabyte).
UPD As always, the best advice is in the comments . Recommend proxylocal gem . In addition, it is absolutely free, withopen source , so also the author is on Habré ( justlest ).