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Harp Platform vs Packetriot: What are the differences?
What is Harp Platform? Front-end publishing platform integrated with Dropbox. The Harp Platform provides users with a low risk, easy to get started and rapid iteration way to publish to the web. Harp exposes the power of the web and gets out of your way, the platform leverages modern web languages and best practices to provide the best users total control and development bliss.
What is Packetriot? Secure and Instant hosting on any network. It uses a secure reverse tunneling protocol to expose servers on local or private networks to the Internet. It supports HTTP/S and TCP traffic and is built to work behind Firewalls, NATs, and Carrier Grade NATs (CG-NAT) Tunnels are assigned a unique and persistent hostname and connect to the same Packetriot server making it simple to setup custom domains. Integration with Let's Encrypt makes it automatic and simple to secure services.
The Packetriot client can serve both upstream web services and static assets eliminating additional tools, such as web servers, and reduce configuration overhead for testing..
Harp Platform belongs to "Static Web Hosting" category of the tech stack, while Packetriot can be primarily classified under "localhost Tools".
Some of the features offered by Harp Platform are:
- SSL Support
- Custom Domains
- Pre-processing
On the other hand, Packetriot provides the following key features:
- Expose any number of HTTP/S services on any network to the Internet
- Expose any number of HTTP/S services on any network to the Internet using custom domains
- TCP port allocation and relaying
Pros of Harp Platform
- Convention over configuration1
- Uses NodeJS and npm1