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Posted by TheTaytay 4/2/2025

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers(pico.sh)
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tempfile 4/3/2025|
That's fun, I found and subscribed to tuns.sh only 2 weeks ago. (I wrote up my experience, too https://danielittlewood.xyz/notes/self-hosting-with-tunnels)
amelius 4/2/2025||
My company blocks ssh. Is there a way to tunnel this through HTTP?
palata 4/2/2025||
I agree. Something like what GitHub offers? https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/troubleshooting-ss...
cuanim 4/3/2025|||
Cockscrew might fit your usecase[1]

[1] - https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

mbs159 4/6/2025|||
Are you sure that they are blocking SSH packets, or just port 22? If they are blocking the port, it's good practice to use something other than 22 anyways
johnklos 4/3/2025|||
Stupid company!

I keep a machine which has sshd listening on the IMAPS port (993) for when I'm traveling. It's amazing how many free networks don't allow ssh, but with -J and sshd on port 993, that really doesn't matter.

lormayna 4/3/2025||
A NGFW, frequently used in the enterprise environments will block it. They are checking the package signatures, not only the YCP ports.
prmoustache 4/3/2025|||
Use that from home or a mobile phone connection?

You probably aren't supposed to update your personal website and stuff when you are working for your company anyway.

chasil 4/2/2025||
I have heard that SSH could be tunneled over DNS UDP packets.

This looks like a decent article, will read later.

https://medium.com/@rogergalo/learn-how-easy-is-to-bypass-fi...

palata 4/2/2025||
Not sure if it has to go that far. Probably it's just blocking port 22.
mbreese 4/3/2025||
Agreed. You can host both SSH and HTTPS on port 443. I know this used to be possible with HAProxy, but now Nginx can do it as well. This way you are hosting normal HTTPS traffic when a browser is used and SSH otherwise.

Now, if your company is actually blocking the SSH protocol, you’ll have to do something like tunneling SSH through SSL, which is also possible… but not as easier IIRC.

codazoda 4/2/2025||
Love the idea.

There are a couple oddities I found in the UI.

1. When you sign up the prompt says “signup”. I didn’t know what it wanted. I finally just guessed username and that was right.

2. I couldn’t get tokens to create (which they say are highly recommended). I hit c for create, entered a name, press enter. Nothing.

antoniomika 4/2/2025|
Sorry, this is a focus issue with a tui which we'll fix up soon! Should just need to hit <tab> until OK is highlighted and then press enter
sjtgraham 4/4/2025||
$2/month is way too cheap. What's the realistic market size here? How much of that is achievable to capture within 24 months? It doesn't seem like it would even support a single developer's salary within that time. Things like this make me worry that this will not be around for long. Even an extremely talented and motivated solo founder will run out of steam earning a fraction of what their skills are worth serving the most fussy, demanding and ungrateful audience imaginable: nerds.

OP increase your prices!

thelittleone 4/3/2025||
Very cool. Though might want to increase contrast on diagrams, for example here https://pico.sh/tuns
mrbluecoat 4/2/2025||
> Upload your static site to us

How do you prevent abuse, like illegal material?

Andoryuuta 4/2/2025||
I'm not sure why it would be different from any other hosting provider. They do clarify what they consider abuse / forbidden content, and their operational policies though:

[1]: https://pico.sh/abuse

[2]: https://pico.sh/ops#code-of-content-publication

jkingsman 4/2/2025|||
This is the challenge. This is tiny and delightful, but most hosting systems are monsters from a compliance perspective not because of a hunger for bureaucracy but that content moderation is SUPER hard.
diggan 4/3/2025|||
> content moderation is SUPER hard

That's a bit over-exaggerated, it certainly isn't fun, nor very interesting, but it's doable, even for smaller organizations. Today is even easier as classification/labeling ML models are pretty good even without any fine-tuning/training on your own dataset.

shishcat 4/2/2025||||
you can easily find entire VMs for 2€/month on sites like LES
kupopuffs 4/3/2025|||
people assuming that LE are going after smalltime hosting
Helithumper 4/2/2025|||
Could be useful to have a tool similar to https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0#moderation-ui
aitchnyu 4/3/2025||
Tangential, how heavy is a NSFW classifier for a VPS? This link leads to a HuggingFace model with Telegram id of author offering premium model.
diggan 4/3/2025||
> how heavy is a NSFW classifier for a VPS?

Not heavy at all, they're really tiny in the grand scale of things and can easily run on CPU only unless you're wanna classify 100s of items per second.

qudat 4/3/2025|||
Good question.

Right now we run some ML models to check for illegal content and then respond immediately with the ban hammer.

We also monitor content published on our platform with some admin tools we built.

ashishb 4/2/2025||
And that's why no one can offer this sustainably for $2/month. There is a cost of policing for illegal stuff as well as outright terrible stuff that requires fair bit of effort.
rendx 4/2/2025|||
You can even get full 'root' on a virtual machine for that price, and plenty of webhosting options.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/2-usd-vps-cheap-vps-under-2-month...

For many years now I've been hosting my IRC bouncer on a $13/yr VPS at netcup and it has been more stable than some of my other VPSes.

wongarsu 4/2/2025|||
Granted, the market for shared hosting has settled closer to $6, but OVH, Hetzner and Netcup all still offer shared hosting for $2/month, with a free domain on top. And all three are in this market for ages now. They limit you to static pages, PHP and a MySQL database, but you can do plenty of illegal stuff with that.
ashishb 4/3/2025||
Wait till they get popular, and then they will abandon this.
jorams 4/3/2025||
I'm not sure about netcup, but Hetzner and OVH are very large, very popular hosting providers that have been in this game for decades.
caioariede 4/3/2025||
I love this! I was about to start using Substack for a personal/professional blog and I was very concerned about the structure they "force" you into. I don't want to socialize in the way they want me to. I just want to write my stuff down, and perhaps help someone, but at the end, all I want is a place to share things with myself in a more elaborated way. Looking at it now!
jefurii 4/3/2025|
If all you want is to scp .html files there's always been shared hosting.
ctippett 4/2/2025||
I signed up for this awhile back when it was free, it's been hosting bibbidibobbidi.boo ever since. It's very neat.
antoniomika 4/2/2025|
And we're still free! Just added some payments to help keep things running smoothly and allow us to invest in more infrastructure. pgs (static sites) and tuns (tunneling) are both multi-region for example.
hiatus 4/3/2025|
It is strange, I tried to add my public key but received a response that it was already in use (!). Is there a way to determine the user associated with a public key? Perhaps it's possible I have previously created an account but I feel I would remember the UI.
qudat 4/3/2025|
Email us at hello@pico.sh and we can triage
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