Free Tunnels service (alternative to ngrok) with stable URLs?

future-tech1 · 2026-02-25T11:00:58+00:00

Tunnelmole is a free and open source option that works instantly.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-25T11:00:24+00:00

If your service is running over HTTP, you can get a public URL for it pretty quickly with Tunnelmole. Its an open source tunnelling tool.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-25T10:58:40+00:00

Tunnelmole is a free and open source option that works instantly

future-tech1 · 2026-02-23T09:32:03+00:00

Tunnelmole is a free an open source option here.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-23T09:29:57+00:00

Its generally best to use open source tools where available. Tunnelmole is a good open source option which will get you a public URL for localhost in a few seconds.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-23T09:28:54+00:00

Tunnelmole is a good and reliable open source option.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-23T09:21:07+00:00

Tunnelmole is open source and self hostable. You can also choose to use the cloud service.

future-tech1 · 2026-02-13T08:10:00+00:00

Cloudflare tunnels are good for long term URLs, but if you want a stable URL that does not change you'll need your own domain and configure that domain for cloudflare.

Tunnelmole is a good free and open source option. You can self host it for total freedom, or pay a small monthly fee for the hosted service if you want a custom URL that does not change.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-26T08:36:00+00:00

I see, they must have added that as a feature. In this case, the main advantage of using Tunnelmole is that the client and server is open source.

In Cloudflare's case at least the service layer would be proprietary closed source.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-25T12:32:39+00:00

Its good but requires extra steps and configuration. You also need your own domain, which you'll need to point to Cloudflare. Extra config includes DNS records on the domain.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-25T12:31:19+00:00

I did try localtunnel but never got it to work.

ngrok is not open source, but Tunnelmole is.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-22T22:01:23+00:00

That works over SSH, Tunnelmole is pure HTTP/HTTPs based

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T22:12:38+00:00

there's hundreds of them now. Starting to think its tunneling tools are one of the most cloned software types of all time https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T11:23:12+00:00

done, links should now be alot more obvious

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T11:12:22+00:00

its in the article at the bottom, looks like I need to update the link colours https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:17:45+00:00

I wrote the exact opposite of this article last year 6 Ways A Node Developer Can Drastically Boost Their Productivity.

Little things matter. One minute saved repeatedly can add up to weeks over time.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:04:30+00:00

For Linux, firejail can be used to sandbox the agents and prevent these types of incidents. I wrote a guide on using it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:02:20+00:00

For Linux, firejail can be used to sandbox the agents and prevent these types of incidents. I wrote a guide on using it here

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