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Routing traffic through a VPS - How is it done and what are the Pros?
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I do the very thing that you are seeking to do. I have a free Oracle Cloud VM running nginx as a reverse proxy. Between the reverse proxy and my home server is a WireGuard tunnel. There are some benefits in that ports do not need to be opened on your home network's firewall so you don't have to do any port forwarding. If you want to go this route, the advice I have for you is to get a free Oracle cloud VPS, install NGINX Proxy Manager on it, and configure a WireGuard tunnel between it and the actual server that the service you want to provide resides on. NGINX Proxy Manager is actually not hard to get going and there are plenty of YouTube videos on it. In fact, for people new to self-hosting I really recommend NGINX Proxy Manager as I started out that way. NGINX Proxy Manager has a well designed GUI. In fact it is so well designed that most of the options are self-explanatory.
As I learned nginx and became better with it, I decided to decommission NPM in favor of a pure nginx environment because I am actually faster on the command line than a GUI. The hardest part for me was getting the WireGuard tunnel built between my home server and my cloud VM. That more pointed out to the fact that I didn't have a good grasp of how firewalld works and firewalld is used in Alma Linux which is on my cloud VM. That was the real challenge.