TailScale
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ngrok
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Loadster
Loader.io
k6 Cloud
LoadForge
LoadUIWeb
LoadFocus
Loadium
OctoPerf
Loadster is a cloud-based load testing and synthetic monitoring platform for engineers who want to know how their applications behave under real traffic.
Tests run with three types of bots: Protocol Bots for HTTP testing, headless Browser Bots that render full pages and execute JavaScript in real Chrome browsers, and Playwright bots for when you want to use Playwright JS directly.
Loadster scripts can be recorded from Chrome or Firefox with the Loadster Recorder extension, edited in a built-in editor with variables, datasets, and shared includes, and then replayed from multiple cloud regions.
Each test run returns detailed page timings (TTFB, FCP, LCP, CLS, etc) alongside resource waterfalls, screenshots, and full traces you can step through in a self-hosted trace viewer. Tests scale from a handful of virtual users (bots) to hundreds of thousands across distributed cloud engines without you provisioning anything.
The same scripts can be set up as monitors that run on a schedule from chosen regions. Notification policies route incidents to email, SMS, voice, or integrations like Slack and PagerDuty. Projects, roles, and shared test history keep teams aligned on what passed, what failed, and what changed.
Pricing is usage-based via Loadster Fuel, with 50 free units on sign-up and no credit card to start.
TailScale LoadsterThey make the already great wireguard even better! Installation and configuration is a breeze, can easily connect to machines behind firewall(s) without altering anything.
Definitely made life easier.
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Tailscale (or any private mesh VPN) connecting that box to every developer's laptop. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
Tailscale gives you a private VPN to access your homelab from anywhere - no port forwarding, no dynamic DNS headaches. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
Tailscale + exit node for clean IP rotation. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
Tailscale is how every machine in the stack is reachable from outside the local network. All four machines are on the same Tailnet, which means I can reach any service from anywhere without opening ports or maintaining a VPN server. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
Still the most reliable setup, honestly. SSH into your machine over Tailscale (or Mosh if your connection is rubbish), reattach your tmux session, carry on. Free, works everywhere, been around forever. The downside is it's all terminal and you need to know your way around. Not exactly mobile-friendly either. Typing SSH commands on a phone keyboard is proper painful. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
ZeroTier - Extremely simple P2P Encrypted VPN
Loader.io - Loader.io is a simple cloud-based load testing service
ngrok - ngrok enables secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.
k6 Cloud - Managed load testing service built on top of the popular open-source project k6.
Netmaker - Netmaker automates mesh VPN's and software-defined networks using WireGuard.
LoadForge - Better, cheaper load testing for websites, APIs and servers