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Jacob Errington
Personal blog · jerrington.me/postsprogrammingsystems
Jacob Errington writes Jacob Thomas Errington's blog, a personal blog at jerrington.me about programming and systems. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his tutorial on a self-hosted ngrok alternative, which exposes a local server through a domain. Commenters cite it as the setup they followed or as a route to roll their own.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-01-30
What Hacker News says?
>> little Raspberry Pi 4 server that I run from my home ISP, for no reason other than to have some fun This. I run mine on RPi 3B+ with a 4 running the database. I reverse proxy to my site via a cloud VPS instance for $4 a month. I switched to the cloud after years on NO-IP when 1) I noticed my IP never changed and 2) my home IP address was public via a look up of my domain name. On another 3B+ I have a VPN so I can…
Comment linking /posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html
on “I wish my web server were in the corner of my room”Submitted Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling as a story · 276 points
HN discussionThere's also a roll your own version if you have a domain https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
Comment linking /posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html
on “Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet”Submitted Roll Your Own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH Reverse Tunnelling as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI've rolled my own following this tutorial[0]. If you are into self hosting this is a great alternative. I am developing an app that a 3rd party site requires a redirect URL. Since my app is still in development and only running locally (and only when active developing) this is what I use. [0] https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
Comment linking /posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.html
on “Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alternative”Submitted Three explained solutions to LeetCode #10: regular expression matching as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing dependent types: how hard could it be? (Part 2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing dependent types: how hard could it be? (Part 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion