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Cloud 66 vs ngrok: What are the differences?
What is Cloud 66? Full Stack Container Management as a Service. Cloud 66 makes Ops easy for developers. It is a single tool built for developers to build, configure and maintain servers and Docker containers on your own servers.
What is ngrok? Securely expose a local web server to the internet and capture all traffic for detailed inspection and replay. ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.
Cloud 66 belongs to "Continuous Deployment" category of the tech stack, while ngrok can be primarily classified under "localhost Tools".
Some of the features offered by Cloud 66 are:
- Provision — build your infrastructure from your code.
- Backup — peace of mind with regular database backups for all your databases.
- Security — Simple firewall management & DDoS protection without the stress.
On the other hand, ngrok provides the following key features:
- Expose any http service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a subdomain of ngrok.com
- Expose any tcp service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a random port of ngrok.com
- Inspect all http requests/responses that are transmitted over the tunnel
"Easy provisioning" is the primary reason why developers consider Cloud 66 over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking ngrok.
ngrok is an open source tool with 16.5K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ngrok's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Cloud 66
- Easy provisioning13
- Easy scaling11
- Security10
- Great Support8
- Monitoring8
- Container deployments7
- Backup7
- Team access control6
- Turnkey DevOps3
- The right balance of control and ease-of-development3
- Rails Deployments2
- Autoscaling1
- Multicloud1
- Command Line Interface1
- Jamstack deployments1
- Static Jamstack Site Deployments1
- Best for Rails Applications1
- Great for Startups1
- Low DevOps skills required1
- Easy Deployment1
- Kubernetes deployment1
- Kubernetes Management1
- API1
- Load balancing1
Pros of ngrok
- Easy to use26
- Super-fast11
- Free7
- Awesome traffic analysis page6
- Reliable custom domains5
- Mobile development1
- Shares service-wide metrics1
- Supports UTP And HTTPS0
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Cons of Cloud 66
Cons of ngrok
- Doesn't Support UDP5
- El tunel SSH cambia de dominio constantemente1