This came in my mail (although I canceled my
Linux Journal subscription awhile back), and thought it was interesting enough to share, but I decided to redact its links since I don't know that they should be posted publicly. If you're interested, I'm sure contacting LJ would get you going. I replaced all links with underlines.
BTW, I'm *so* out of the loop...let's just say I'm really not sure what this is or why I would want it.
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Hello Linux Journal Subscribers,
No cloud, no problem. Self host and
holepunch.io takes care of the rest.
holepunch.io is a new tunneling service developed by some folks at London Trust Media (our parent company), and they'd like to share it with you for free. The service is currently in beta testing, and LJ readers are the first to hear of it.
You can use
holepunch.io to host a website locally over http or https and share it with friends or clients via a public URL (support for tcp or udp coming in the near future). To get started, simply
sign up and then go to the download page to get the punch CLI that you will use for starting a tunnel. You also can use the CLI to do
other things, like reserving a specific subdomain to use for your site.
Now, other services similar to
holepunch.io do exist, but
holepunch.io is focused on providing the best quality at a lower price while being more private, secure and open than other options. The
holepunch.io team is making business, architectural and development decisions that will allow you to trust your data going through their service. You already can find much of their code on
github.
The development team would love to hear your feedback, so please tell them what you like or don't like, and let them know if you find any bugs (email
support@holepunch.io).
Thanks,
Linux Journal and the Holepunch.io teams