Hands-on guides, protocol deep dives, and field notes on tunnels, SSH, reverse proxies, self-hosting, self-hosted LLMs, and AI - from the people building Pinggy.
ServerPrism review: how splitting one plan into a Velocity proxy, lobby, survival world and test server works, what hardware runs heavy modpacks, 30+ engines, 1,500+ modpacks, sub-users and bill splitting. Checked November 2026.
CloudNord review for public Minecraft SMPs: always-on CloudShield DDoS filtering, Ryzen and EPYC nodes kept below capacity, 18 locations, 15-minute support replies, and the 3-day refund window. Checked November 2026.
OpenAI Dots, Meta Muse, Grok Bot and Instinct compared with open source Hermes Agent and OpenClaw: what makes each one act without being asked, where it runs, who holds your logins, and what it costs in October 2026.
Mistral Large 4 ships open weights: 1T parameters, 49B active, 1M context. Here is what it takes to serve it with vLLM on one 8-GPU node and expose the API safely with a Pinggy tunnel.
Set up an OpenAI dot as a proactive chief of staff: connect Gmail, Calendar and Codex, hand it a whole to-do list on one call, write custom rules, and cut the noise. Plans, limits and regions as of October 2026.
Early CRM data architecture choices compound into costly problems at scale: flat contact records, one pipeline for every deal type, and no data hygiene rules. Here are the setup decisions that matter most and how to get them right.
My pick for best overall AI image-to-video generator is FLUX 3 Max on fal: #1-tier 1,139 Elo, ~22x faster than Seedance 2.5. Plus picks for speed and budget.
SocketXP's $20 and $99 plans only allow SSH from its browser terminal. Five SocketXP alternatives for SSH into Raspberry Pis and IoT devices behind NAT: Pinggy, Tailscale, RemoteIoT, qbee.io and Cloudflare Tunnel, with October 2026 pricing.
Run Claude Code or Codex on a cloud VM or a home devbox and drive it from your phone or laptop: Claude Code Remote Control, Codex remote control and SSH hosts, SSH with tmux, and a Pinggy TCP tunnel for machines behind NAT.
Compare 10 AI documentation tools for READMEs, API docs and tutorials, with pricing, limitations and a workflow that keeps developer docs accurate.
