Packetriot vs PageKite

PageKite vs Packetriot: What are the differences?

Developers describe PageKite as "Make local websites or SSH servers publicly accessible in mere seconds". PageKite is a system for exposing localhost servers to the public Internet. It is most commonly used to make local web servers or SSH servers publicly visible, although almost any TCP-based protocol can work if the client knows how to use an HTTP proxy. On the other hand, Packetriot is detailed as "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..

PageKite and Packetriot can be categorized as "localhost" tools.

Some of the features offered by PageKite are:

• Let colleagues and clients test or remote-debug directly off your computer.
• Simplify testing on mobile devices and live networks.
• Run webhooks, API servers or git repos on your desktop - or in a VM.

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

PageKite is an open source tool with 557 GitHub stars and 102 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PageKite's open source repository on GitHub.