GoKawiilGuide shows how to self-host HTTP tunnels using OpenSSH and Nginx
A technical post walks through building a self-hosted alternative to services like ngrok or Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, relying only on standard OpenSSH remote port forwarding and an Nginx reverse proxy rather than proprietary clients or servers. It details configuring SSH to forward a local port to a remote server, setting up Nginx to route wildcard subdomains to that port, and obtaining a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate via DNS-01 challenges on Route 53.