Your servers should never wait for permission to speak.

Outbound-only connectivity changes everything. You keep all control in your hands while avoiding inbound ports, public IPs, and the headaches of reverse proxies and firewalls. The node calls out. Nothing calls in. That means no direct exposure, no sitting open to probes, and less surface area for attack.

Self-hosted outbound-only connectivity is the simplest way to connect infrastructure that sits behind NAT, corporate firewalls, or private networks to the cloud. You run your own lightweight agent. It launches outbound secure connections to your chosen service. This lets you keep full ownership of your environment without relying on third-party hosted tunnels. No need for complex VPNs or heavy networking stacks.

With self-hosted, you decide everything—runtime, deployment method, scaling policy, failure handling. You stay cloud-agnostic. You meet compliance needs that rule out inbound ports or SaaS-managed edge nodes. Outbound-only means you can connect staging environments, regulated workloads, or ephemeral dev boxes to cloud services in a way that stays simple, predictable, and private.

Security is tighter. Since you only open outbound connections, the path into your system is closed by default. Firewalls are happy. Auditors are calm. Secrets stay inside your network. Every piece of traffic is initiated and encrypted from your side.

Performance is cleaner. No traffic hairpinning through middle layers unless you choose it. Connections are predictable, latency is stable, and you can scale agents horizontally to match throughput needs.

Development moves faster. Local development environments can connect over outbound channels to cloud services without manual port forwarding. Production systems can sync, stream, or trigger jobs without exposing a single inbound route. You get the same model everywhere: the agent connects out, the service responds, work gets done.

If you want to see self-hosted outbound-only connectivity without waiting weeks for a proof of concept, try it now with hoop.dev. You’ll have a live deployment in minutes, running safely behind your firewall, talking outbound only, and instantly usable in your stack.

Get started. See it live. Keep control.