Hi, I run a minecraft server off of my computer using ngrok. I don’t like how the ip changes when the tunnel goes down. Would it be possible for me to link to a webpage on neocities or something and have that website then detect the current ngrok tunnel and redirect to it? Does that make sense?
Ngrok offers fixed address. Just set one up and give that out for people to connect to instead of temporary IPs.
It’s not free, though, at least $20/year on pro. Why not just pick a Ngrok alternative which can provide a fixed IP - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
While you are of course correct, the free offerings from ngrok are limited to 1GB/m transfer, not sure if that’s feasible to run a mc server with, so I didn’t assume that OP was the free plan. (Although admittedly, he likely is)
Trouble is that much of that awesome list is reliant on having resources that you can self host and egress point on. Which doesn’t seem all that likely either. This really wasn’t the right sub to ask his question in. 😅
But since he did, the I’d probably suggest that OP drops ngrok completely in favor of something like playit.gg which has dedicated hostname (and a bunch of other useful stuff) built right with every tunnel.
I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation