Stop Paying for Tunnels. Use Open Source Instead.

FRP (Fast Reverse Proxy) is an open-source alternative to paid tunneling services that allows you to expose local services and home lab servers to the internet without port forwarding. It works by creating a reverse proxy tunnel through a server you control (like an AWS EC2 instance), routing traffic securely between your local machine and the public internet. The setup involves configuring both a server component on a publicly accessible machine and a client on your local network, with support for various protocols including HTTP and SSH. This approach provides better security than traditional port forwarding while maintaining full control over your infrastructure at minimal cost.