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Tunnels, networking, self-hosted LLMs, and AI news

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.


Top 10 Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives in 2026

guide comparison

Discover the top 10 Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives in 2026. Explore Pinggy.io, ngrok, Localtunnel, and more. Compare features, ease of use, and prices in this comprehensive guide.

Access Raspberry Pi Remotely to Control IoT Devices

iot guide raspberrypi

Learn how to securely connect to your Raspberry Pi or IoT device remotely over the internet without port forwarding. Explore SSH, VNC, and RDP methods with step-by-step guides.

T-Mobile Port Forwarding

guide tcp

T-Mobile home internet uses CG-NAT, making port forwarding difficult. Learn how to create a Pinggy TCP tunnel to forward any port through T-Mobile's CG-NAT.

Outage Incident Report Nov 6, 2023

outage incident

Incident report for the November 6, 2023 outage. Learn about steps taken to address the issue, temporary access solutions, and preventive measures implemented.

Scaling across Multiple Regions

engineering update

How Pinggy serves tunnels from three regions: the core/edge split, self-hosted PowerDNS on Postgres with WAL streaming replication, and why anycast is still hard.

Ngrok - But without downloading anything

Get localhost tunnels without downloading anything. Unlike Ngrok which requires platform-specific downloads, Pinggy works with just one command.