Connet.dev – high performance reverse proxy to connect devices privately

6 Ingon 8 5/2/2025, 12:48:14 PM connet.dev ↗

Comments (8)

andrewfromx · 12h ago
I like it. Here's how I see the marketplace:

Quick demonstrations & development: ngrok

Low-resource environments (IoT, embedded): rathole

Privacy-focused deployments: connet

Production with active community: FRP

Self-hosting with direct connections: connet

https://gist.github.com/andrewarrow/d0e41dd954485a8574b9ea74...

Ingon · 12h ago
Very cool comparison, thank you!

One new feature I haven't highlighted yet, is that you can, in addition, encrypt traffic as it goes through relays (both via tls or noise-inspired protocol, dhxcp). This enhances privacy, even when you are using public (e.g. not owned by you relays), covering a case like https://connet.dev nicely.

yair99dd · 3h ago
I'm a zrok.io fan
srichard16 · 12h ago
Curious: why do you see ngrok as just for testing and dev when thousands of users use ngrok in production?

Full disclosure I work there.

ghoshbishakh · 11h ago
Why route all traffic through a tunnel for a production setup? On-premise solutions will use static IPs from their ISPs.

Full disclosure - I work at https://pinggy.io

sylens · 12h ago
Interestingly I just did this with my own reverse proxy recently; nginx proxy manager in a container running on the network of a Tailscale container on the same host, connected to a Tailscale exit node on internal network. Will take a look at whether this is better.
Ingon · 5h ago
Thanks, it would be great to hear if you tried connet and how it went!

In any case, homegrown solutions are great, they offer the most flexibility, but also require the biggest time investment (and knowledge of course).

Ingon · 13h ago
Hi All,

This is a hosted version of connet[1]. In addition, it allows users to expose their endpoints directly on the internet (optional and still in progress)

[1] https://github.com/connet-dev/connet