Lets just talk about how much of a genius this guy has to be to even make the MUSIC for his videos himself

this channel is for sure going to blow up

Seriously, you're the best homelab/tech youtuber I've found. Slick and clean editing, calming or groovy music, and easy to understand tutorials. Very nice.

ayyyyy ngrok, was talking to some one about this on the discord server the other day. HOWEVER there is one major caveat: the addresses that it assigns to you are not random they are progenerated. this means that if you restart your server and get a new ip you might get the ip that was assigned to some one else's server before. this means that you can get random people joining from time to time. not a big deal but be sure to whitelist the server if you don't want it public!!!!

Thank you for this!! As I told you on your last video, I managed to do it on my own, but it was pretty complicated figuring everything out first so I'm glad you made a tutorial!! You did a great job, man!

underrated channel. ngrock is useful for many purposes.

I think this is great. Getting people aware of docker and using linux at a young age is valuable if they ever want to get into a technical field.

19:51 thats a pipe, its used to pipe the output of one command as the input to another command

Oh my god, I’ve always known I could route traffic to not expose any ports on my network. But never paid a server to do it. Now, this is amazing. Huge thanks!

Never gonna lie. You deserve more subs.

bro your he best youtuber who never focuses on his content (TOO) much but rater more about the information he gives what a legend. I bet you are ging to blow up and you made me from making a simple mc server to making literally everything thank you.

As usual a interresting video with something new I didnt know before. NGROK seems very interresting

I've been looking for this exact solution for years! Me and my buddies have been stuck with free hosting services for quite a while and we eventually had to put a halt on our server since most of us have been busy with college lately, but now that I have a bit of free time, I can finally revive the server! You have no idea what a godsend this video is to me and everyone else whose been looking for the same solution, so I want you to know that your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Amazing video, although there are alternatives such at PlayIt, and Cloudflare Tunneling (I personally use PlayIt as it has lower ping for me, and even allows 6 ports controlled via a web panel, useful for if i don't have the server access at the time). NGROK sometimes is a little annoying for multiple tunnels. Just alternatives though. So this may be useful if ngrok gives you quite high ping. PlayIt is meant to have Ipv6 soon apparently.

Really glad to see the channel starting to get big! Great content! 👍

YES YES YES THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

Hey its me again. I just wanna tell you thanks because now i can finally play along with my friends in peace without having troble with my ISP. I'll say it again you are a very great person and your video are very well made. You should have more subscribers because you do such nice video and pretty detailed. Keep going on mate you're doing great.

Thank you, I was opening the server in ngrok with just the port number, didn't work. Had no idea I had to include the IP as well. You a legend.

Thank you so much for this. Thank you for inspiring me to turn my old computer into a server so I can play with buddies. This was super helpful because my parents won't give me the router info to port my PC. This was so helpful.

Man, finally one that works. my ISP don't allow to do port forwarding, so I was stuck with hamachi and Aternos/Exaroton. Thanks a lot

Holly cow thanks!!! I did have to figure some stuff on my own but would have never gone so far without you! Now my old laptop is a nice mc server

Thank you SOOO MUCH!!!!! I spent hours trying to figure out why my ports werent opening to then find out my ISP uses NAT and you just fixed my problems in literally 2 minutes. Absolute Lifesaver!

It would be really neat if you could revisit this concept of hosting a game server behind cgnat, but using a reverse proxy running on a free vps such as the free tier from oracle. For example I have a local machine running my game server and tailscale, and on the vps I have nginx proxy manager with cloudflare dns and tailscale. I saw someone else who had the same setup, but without nginx, instead running velocity or bungeecord on the vps which then connects to the game server on the local machine through tailscale.

I'm 43 seconds in and I'm getting logmein hamatchi vibes. Those were the good old Minecraft days lol.

You are amazing. I will try this; haven't yet but just the fact that there is a legitimate way to do what i've always wanted to do for years and you're showing exactly how to do it, makes me wanna thank you a million times. Once i try it and it works out, I will come thank you again. Please never delete this video!

sudo actually stands for "substitute user do"! If there are other users on the computer, you can also use sudo to run commands as those other users, not just as root! Just figured you might want this info! 15 year sysadmin veteran here very much enjoying your journey and learning over time in the home lab space!

I really like your videos about Minecraft servers. I would love to see how to put a map you have or that you find on the internet on the server!

Been a minute since I watched! Glad you're still doing good! 400 to 19k! HIT THAT SILVER!!!

This is exactly what I always needed. You saved me

If your isp supports upnp with cgnat you can use upnp testing tools to open ports through cgnat. This also works in double nat situations.

THANK YOU SO MUCH SO HELPFULL i have been racking my brain trying to do this stuff lol

Dude, you are an absolute SAINT. THANK YOU!!!!

Amazed by this...also thanks very mcuh for sharing your song..Now i can keep it on my playlist when i am studying.Btw tcp and sub netting are always confusing for me....i feel will have to try this ...this vid was in-depth amd interesting as usual

You deserve way more than 200k 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.

that is the most slick intro

Another amazing video! Easy to follow. I don't have issues with port forwarding but this'll be good to save in case I have issues in the future with my isp.

Note: I think the reason why the message that appeared in the mc-url chat section had clear on the end of "The Server Changed" was because "!!" references the last command (e.g. "sudo !!" runs sudo on the most recent command in the terminal history).

1:58 Nazaré Tedesco meme from Brazil! LOL....

Just something to note (it is an issue I ran into): when troubleshooting port forwarding (especially on some ISP routers) use an online tool to check if your port is open, rather than trying your public IP from the same internet connection that has it. While the latter may work, the router may not support "hairpin NAT" which allows for a connection to be made to a portforwarded service from inside the same NAT using the public IP address. The portforward will still be working, just not for anyone inside the network.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 8 hours worth of time to find this

Great video! Hope your channel keeps growing!

You just not earned a subscriber but also my respect bro. And the docker container you made can be way too useful in many ways not only for Minecraft server, basically by this method you can put online any server you want publicly.

continue your content! It is awesome!!

Cool that you include the errors you encounter as well

I didn't understand anything but i've enjoyed it! Thanks 😊

Oh man I was thinking about making something like this but instead for Project Zomboid, clearly never got it to work mostly due to the fact that ngrok only supports the TCP protocol while Project Zomboid requires both UDP and TCP I believe. I was planning on integrating a Discord bot myself to post the new server IP every time but again this boat sunk before it even sailed. Minecraft most definitely works though! Great video man!

Your so intresting to watch

Thank god you did this video!!!!!

Glad to see my ngrok suggestion on the server build video inspired you! Thanks for taking the time to work out the Docker stuff, that is awesome! I've manually added the ngrok address to my dynamic DNS domains but never bothered to make it automatic. One of my servers is on a UPS so rarely has to reboot so I can usually just use the consistent ddns address (for example .ddns.net) to get to the server. Perhaps you can make another video expanding on the "ngrok2discord" idea and automatically update the dynamic DNS info with the current nrgok address? I haven't tried that hard but so far wasn't able to figure out how auto update my ddns automatically with the unusual syntax ngrok uses for the address but it will work if you do it manually.

| is the pipe character, you have amazing content!

Ngrok is very useful but it doesn't allow tunnelling big amount of data.

Surely good content! You've interested me in nas/minecraft server build. So Im waiting for windows tutorial for ngrok

I really want to set-up a server. All this time my friends and I would just use a VPN that allows us to play LAN if that makes sense. The benefit of this is I can have them play on the world without the host needing to open their world. Maybe someday when I can get some cheap pc parts for it. Great vid!

I hope you respond, and I've already looked it up, but what should I do when my SSH stops responding? It keeps telling me that the connection times out. It started to happen after I did the command at 10:26. Any help is appreciated!

Amazing video! Keep it up.

I love your videos! thanks for making them fun and informational!

This is exactly what I needed. My ISP remotely disabled IPv4 NAT on my modem, and its IPv6 equivalent would require disabling the entire firewall. I had thought of a similar solution, but never had the time to implement it. So thank you -- and fuck Vodafone.

Or alternatively you can purchase a cloud server (VPS) and host the server on that. 18:13 you accidentally leaked your Ngrok auth token, it showed for 1-2 seconds which is long enough to pause the video and get the token

Really nice tut

this is so fricking cool

Ngrok worked well but I hit my bandwith limit within a couple hours using it for free. Switched to playit but it feels laggy compared to ngrok, going to try and retry port forwarding tomorrow.

ive been using ngrok for a phew years works nice but instead of having people connect through the ngrok url you could setup cloudflare with a domain and just put all the ngrok info on it through an a record and srv record also a good way to keep ngrok running without having to have ssh open the whole time on windows would be to use screen that way the ip doesnt constantly change only bad thing is with the way i do it is that i have to manually do alot of stuff could make it automatic by making a script to do everything for me but i have the time to do everything myself the reason i like having a domain connected is it never changes for the people playing on ur server so they dont have to constantly change the ip to connect to the world

I really should be sleeping but i can't fall asleep

27:30 I think that it interpreted the three exclamation marks as two exclamation marks meaning prvious command, which was why it said "clear" instead of "!!" and the third exclamation mark just remained.

nice video bro! btw you forget to blur at 18:13

I think you could even set up some way to automatically point a DDNS hostname to ngrok. DuckDNS for example lets you do it via a simple command.

for the issue about the ip instead of posting a link in chat you can get a free domain from freenom and write up a script in python or bash to update the domain via cloudflares api

!!ATTENTION!! as of today some ISP's are now blocking NGROK backends/tunnels, I am not sure which ones for sure, but I know that I use T-mobile and about 7 months ago, this worked, there have been no changes to the setup and now it DOES NOT, it throws an "Unknown Host" error which basically means your ISP blocked the NGROK tunnel because the server runs and can connect, however, ONLY from the IP its being hosted on and as soon as you attempt to connect through NGROK, it fails.

For users making a Bedrock server, NGROK does not support UDP, which Bedrock uses. Java uses TCP, which NGROK does support.

ive been looking for a program like this i love you (no homo)

I wanted to host a Minecraft server but I could not get port forwarding to work in my router settings but this video made it possible and now I can Host a server across the web thx so much

that's great! i'm playing it with my firends non stop from yesterday but how you acces your console as developer in mc?

Nice video ! i followed the "two first" about minecraft server and it finnally work perfectly. I was now wondering : will i get any advantage using an old graphic card, like a 640GT?

The video I didn't know I needed

You can also use hamachi

thanks for all the info, it works perfect, but how do you add mods to the server?

I now have a Minecraft server setup and I am excited to use it with my friends but I’m going out of state Friday and I was wondering if there was a way to turn on the computer while I was away without someone physically pressing the power button because I don’t want it to be constantly on. (P.S the computer is running on Ubuntu)

I have an idea to fix the problem of the dynamic URL generated by ngrok, and it could work. Using a No-IP hostname to redirect to a URL can solve this issue. By doing so, you will need to update the URL at No-IP every time you restart ngrok. And Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful application.

Is it possible to use DuckDNS with ngrok so it resolves the DuckDNS ip to ngroks?

To go back to your home directory, you can just use "cd" by itself without the tilde (~).

what kinda routers block port forwarding?

Have you heard of the alternative playit? I don't know much about it but what it looks like is that's it also has a free option but then you get to keep an address

I am trying to use this tutorial to set up a TF2 server, it seems like it's going to work because it needs to do the same thing as the Minecraft server tutorial thing needed but with a different port, and different software NGROCK is useful for a lot of things

Cool video. Maybe you can try online VPN service like tailscale or zerotier on your local Minecraft server and directly skip the docker setup.

it says "disconnected" in minecraft

I’m trying to run a server for a game called “Unturned”, I looked it up and it says the game uses 2 ports. Is there any way to use Ngrok for it?

Welp, I usually just use tmux and that should kept things alive in the background. But it is a very documentary video. Learned from it 😂

hey i have a problem when i try to systemctl status it makes this failure "code=exited status=1/failure " can you help me because i tried to find it on google but with no luck thanks

Would it be fine if you make the docker/git repo for your ngrok2discord open source? I would like to share 2 of my servers to my friends and currently, I can't have my own ISP since my landlord wants us to pay for and use their internet. Hence, no portforwarding options can be done so I needed to revert back to ngrok.

20:46 it says "curl: (7) Failed to connect to mylocalhost port 4040 after 0ms: connection refused" Any help please?

hey ive watched many tutorials setup, im just doing windows, but when I get the unique ngrok address it doesn't allow me to connect to the server

You're videos are so great! Maybe a bit late but this "|" is called a pipe :)

nice very nice video, I'm doing my own Minecraft server with ngrok but without this automation, but there is one problem, nobody want play on this server

Really cool video. But let's say someone is running pterodactyl and has more then one server running in wings. Can the discord notifier be tweaked to call out different server addresses changing?

19:55 That symbol has a couple different names but I've found it's most commonly referred too as 'pipe'

How do I add UDP as the second protocol in the ngrok.yml config?

The 'The Server Changed clear!' message in discord happens because of shell syntax. Replacing the 'The Server Changed!!' message with 'The Server Changed\!\!' or 'The Server Changed\!' should fix it. The double exclamation mark is actually an operator in POSIX shells (i.e. bash, zsh, etc.) used to print the previous command. In this case, you used the `clear` command before running that docker instance, and in doing so added the 'clear' string to your update message.

At 18:14 you accidentally show your token. Make sure to blur it and reset your token!

Reminds me of using hamachi back in the day to connect to private servers

Alternatives If you have some money to pay for a vps You could use cloudflared to tunnel the Minecraft server and use the vps as a ingress server Like vps - cloudflared tunnel - Minecraft