@Andres_Vaquero
So are you proposing that everyone learns to upload a screenshot of their problems using the Markdown
features? Because I can surely say that’s a far reach. Especially when most people don’t know how to use the Markdown
features or don’t care to use it. And would rather have to describe a situation and have others try to comprehend the broken English and figure out what they need. A clear example can be your quote you took off that article which you clearly didn’t format correctly.
Aside from that, ngrok
’s tunneling process allows you to use ngrok
safely. It’s protected through ngrok
’s servers. You can also view who is looking at your localhost
on the dashboard
on ngrok
. If the IP
Address looks suspicious, you can simply cut off your connection and generate a new ngrok URL
.
Here are the docs on it. https://ngrok.com/docs#inspect
You can also whitelist certain IP
Address to access your localhost
. https://ngrok.com/docs#whitelist
Again, ngrok
isn’t a service for CONSTANT sharing which most people will likely use ngrok
for. They believe that this is a way to host their websites without paying money to hosting providers which is a terrible idea. This is why I included the lines
if you don’t want to waste money on electricity.
It’s because ngrok
is just a service to share your localhost
with other coworkers or people you trust.
I have yet to see any other bad reviews other than that single one you posted which seems to be someone trolling the internet. I’ve searched for hours on Google
using the terms
do not use ngrok
why ngrok is bad
You should also look at the testimonials on ngrok
if you’re so suspicious about it.
Sorry to spoil you, but I haven’t seen any bad reviews other than that one saying that everyone should stop using it because it’s dangerous. The idea of this topic is to allow others to share ideas or development files where they don’t have to upload it to a live server or purchase a web hosting account which could save them a lot of money. This is probably the closest to hosting a website on your own local machine. If you are truly an “IT” user, you should already know to always update your system and always scan your computer no matter what the circumstances are. And if you are someone like me, you would always be watching what processes are running and if it looks suspicious or it doesn’t look like a software you download, you would normally end the process on it or scan that specific process.
But I guess it’s a “No No” for me because I am apparently not a “Web developer” even though I know how to deploy my own localhost
without using XAMPP
or WAMP
or MAMP
or Vagrant
on a VM
. And apparently, this doesn’t mean jack if I am not a “Web Developer”.
https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/installing-the-php-environment-spaceshiptrooper-style/253192