Hello Community Advisory Members,

holepunch.io is a new tunneling service developed by some folks at London Trust Media (our parent company), and they'd like to share it with you for free. The service is currently in beta testing, and we are sending this out to you, our LUG community advisors. We would appreciate if you could also pass this along to your LUG members.

The development team would love to hear your feedback, so please tell them what you like or don't like, and let them know if you find any bugs (email support@holepunch.io). 

You can use holepunch.io to host a website locally over http or https and share it with friends or clients via a public URL (support for tcp or udp coming in the near future).  To get started, simply sign up and then go to the download page to get the punch CLI that you will use for starting a tunnel.  You also can use the CLI to do other things, like reserving a specific subdomain to use for your site.

Now, other services similar to holepunch.io do exist, but holepunch.io is focused on providing the best quality at a lower price while being more private, secure and open than other options.  The holepunch.io team is making business, architectural and development decisions that will allow you to trust your data going through their service.  You already can find much of their code on github.

The development team would love to hear your feedback, so please tell them what you like or don't like, and let them know if you find any bugs (email support@holepunch.io).

Thanks,

Linux Journal and the Holepunch.io teams