How Pluggie works under the hood, honest comparisons, and practical guides for self-hosters.
We relay your encrypted traffic without decrypting it — but we control the domain. Here is the full technical picture, what that means in practice, and what we commit to as operators.
Read article → Deep DivePort forwarding still works — when your ISP lets it — but a port opened on a residential router today is found and probed within minutes. Here is what actually happens, and what the trade-offs of each approach really are.
Read article → GuideStep-by-step guide to setting up secure remote access to Home Assistant using Pluggie — no router configuration required.
Read article → Deep DiveCloudflare Tunnel requires your domain's nameservers to point to Cloudflare. Here's exactly what that means, what it costs if you don't want to, and what alternatives exist.
Read article → Deep DiveCloudflare Tunnel terminates TLS at their edge servers. Your login credentials, device commands, and camera feeds are decrypted at Cloudflare's infrastructure. Here's what that means.
Read article → Deep DiveYour ISP may be blocking all inbound connections to your home network. Here's what CGNAT is, how to detect it, and your options.
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