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Originally Posted by jillmess
Am following this 'pagekite' stuff with interest though. Never heard of it before. |
Neither had I, but it's an interesting concept.
I see a few use-cases for PageKite (and a few other companies that provide a similar service):
A - if your WAN-ip address at home is very "dynamic" (or has changed without you realising and you want to remotely connect to data on your home server).
B - if your internet service provider does not like you to run your own server on port 80 (or closes all other ports below 1024).
C - if you, from a security perspective, do not want to open ports in your router and forward them to your PC('s)/NAS or find this to complex.
D - if you want to connect to a portable device (laptop) when it's outside of our own LAN. (A read something about a guy using Starbucks/McDonalds wifi and giving a client access to (a preview) of some work done for them.
If I can make MontyJ's COPS working I might try PageKite or a similar service to make A and/or D working for myself.
$ 3/month is not a lot of money, but just a little bit to much for casual use a few times a year.