I'm the author of SirTunnel and I recommend Cloudflare Tunnel as the solution for most people today.

That said, competition is valuable and I'm wary of ending up in a place where the best solution today becomes the only solution tomorrow and a terrible solution eventually.

My main side project currently involves building a viable alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel with features like e2ee, better domain name integration, support for selfhosting[0], etc, but the reality is today they're the best option for most people.

[0]: Cloudflare's TOS explicitly forbids hosting non-HTTP content over Tunnel. Which means you're not supposed to do things like running a Plex server or hosting other media. In practice, I haven't heard of many cases of that being enforced.

I can assure you that I am not associated with Cloudflare (nor any company right now!), but a fan of the product.

I'm working on https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape/ right now, and I'm using it to expose my test server to the internet at large from MacBook. It's insanely simple to do.

Honestly, seeing that stuff and then finding myself guilty of it as well got me to buy stock.

I haven't seen this many people in tech like a company since Apple started getting popular. After using it, I see why. Makes my life easier for a reasonable price (often free).

I am guilty of promoting Cloudflare, but it's cause I genuinely like most of their products and find they save me/my company significant time - including Tunnels, which I use to host several services like a Stable Diffusion web interface for our art team.

That said, their support for NextJS in Pages is pretty frustrating, so if they do have shills that read this, please do something about that :)

it's a variation of the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM*"- effect

*IBM should probably be replaced with something else soon given how irrelevant they've become