# What's a tunnel ?

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926>\
**Category:** Xojo Cloud\
**Created:** [April 17, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926 "2016-04-17T15:34:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Horacio_Vilches)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/1 "2016-04-17T15:34:29Z")

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Hi  
I just bought a month of cloud. I have two questions:

1 whats a tunnel  
2 Once I deploy an app, what is its web address to share it ?

Tks

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Lefebvre](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/paul_lefebvre/32/3152_2.png) [@Paul\_Lefebvre](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Paul_Lefebvre)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/2 "2016-04-17T17:26:59Z")

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You’d use the IP address unless you’ve mapped a domain to it.

For more information, refer to the [Xojo Cloud](http://developer.xojo.com/xojo-cloud) topic in the docs.

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**Author:** ![Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@Horacio\_Vilches](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Horacio_Vilches)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/3 "2016-04-17T19:43:44Z")

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Can we put html pages inside our cloud space and create a website that link to our apps ?

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**Author:** ![Greg\_O\_Lone](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/greg_o_lone/32/49_2.png) [@Greg\_O\_Lone](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Greg_O_Lone)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/4 "2016-04-17T23:45:16Z")

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> [@260353:@Horacio Vilches](#):
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> Can we put html pages inside our cloud space and create a website that link to our apps ?

Yes. You can use sftp to upload files to the Web directory.

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**Author:** ![Loannis\_Kolliageorgas](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Loannis\_Kolliageorgas](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Loannis_Kolliageorgas)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/6 "2016-04-18T09:18:45Z")

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[quote=260456:@Horacio Vilches]what is our address ?  
I named my server software4school, what is my address ?

pls bear with me[/quote]  
You can purchase a Xojo Cloud server from the Xojo Store. Once it is provisioned, you can access the Control Panel from your Accounts page on the Xojo web site.

The Control Panel displays your servers (including the IP address) and can performs these actions:

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/whats-a-tunnel/30926/7 "2020-10-29T18:16:28Z")

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