I'm increasingly thinking that I should move towards using MQ / mosquitto as the transport for communication, so I'll file this issue to sollicate feedback.

In my view the point of this software is not to offer a service that people can use, but instead to share software that users can host themselves. If people wanted something "free" and seamless they could use ngrok itself. It offers a nice console-based GUI, a decent set of stats, and similar.

I'm running my own instance here so that users can demo the tool, and try it out in a simple fashion. Not because I want to run a service that users can rely upon directly. If I'm committing to run a service myself it will become a support-burden, and the only way that will be eased is if people throw piles of shiny notes at me.

If I use MQ then setup for self-hosting users is still simple; instead of using apache/nginx they just apt-get install mosquitto (or the local equivilent).

I can stil allow users to demo it, by defaulting to the test install of mosquitto, available online

• http://test.mosquitto.org/

Of course anybody could be listening ..