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Discussion on: Expose your local 💻 web server to the world 🌐

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George Jempty • Edited

"Now you can give 1 of the above links to anyone to access on the internet" -- this is against most service providers' terms of service today. Nevertheless the following has been around for 15+ years: dyn.com/remote-access/

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

@dexygen "this is against most service providers" not sure what this means, care to explain ?

dyn.com/remote-access/ sure is an alternative but you do need register before using or not ?

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George Jempty

It means if your internet service provide finds out they can terminate your service. And yeah you probably have to register, but why would that be a deal-breaker?

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀 • Edited

@dexygen it is not a deal breaker per se but why register for a simple use case like mine

thanks for the constructive comments so far.

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George Jempty

Guess I'm just trying to let your readers know a) the potential drawbacks of doing this in general, and b) an alternative, especially since somebody tried your method and it didn't succeed at first. I used to like running servers from my home so I'm interested in general but haven't done so in 15 years or so. Thanks for the article and good luck.

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀 • Edited

@dexygen it is not my readers only they are reading your comments as well 😜

I just had this post in my mind and had to let it free. I belive I gave plenty of alternatives (without actual example thought). I am aware that no solution is perfect and therefore all criticism is well received and in good faith.

I am always greatful of insightful comments like yours so please keep it up.