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Hi Tailscale engineer here. The operator also supports Tailscale Funnel so you could use that instead of Cloudflare tunnel if you desired.


Hey ! I see Tailscale Funnels as maybe a good replacement for Ngrok, but not for Cloudflare Tunnels.

Your Funnels are in Beta, MUST use your tailnet’s domain name, have bandwitdh limits, no failover and no load balancing. If my website goes down, I close shop. Cloudflare Tunnels are just way more mature for production loads. CF Tunnels technically don't have load balancing, but if you set multiple Tunnels with the same ID, you get some sort of load balancing AND failovers if a tunnel goes down. And after that, they have a paid Load Balancer option.

Even for internal admin portals, the mention that "Traffic over Funnel is subject to bandwidth limits." with absolutely no defined numbers is just a turn off. If you added a number to that, like a limit of MBPS or GB/Month of transfer, it would be something I can bring to my colleagues, something we can discuss and weight on. For now, with no number, it's just a threat.

Everything else about Tailscale is chefskiss tho ;)


You can do local port forwarding today, remote port forward is still a WIP. What do you want to use it for?

Disclaimer: I am one of the engineers who built Tailscale SSH.


Accessing Clojure nREPL servers, local port forwarding works for that. This allows me to inspect and modify running applications, a Lisp superpower.


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