„Inspired“ from https://lemmy.world/post/287146 and many related questions (also on reddit before).

Why don‘t people like opening Port 443 on their Homerouter? An open Port itself is not a vulnerability because nothing is listening on it, therefore there cannot be any connection established. When forwarding Port 443 From Router to e.g. The Homeservers LoadBalancer / Proxy, this Proxy is the final resolver anyways.

So why doing the more complex and more error prone Route via the VPS / Tailscale / CloudFlare?

I did that some years ago too, but just because i did not have an static IPv4 at home. But speeds were awful and i switched to Routerport + DynDNS and now everything is super performant.

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    Only one reason, i had a mail server previously. And buying a static ip from my isp was more expensive than renting a vps for 2$ a month.

    Nowadays i just think its cool so that i can have a failover for critical services. (Only Vaultwarden for me) Also its nice to have your own full speed vpn.

    And i also run rustdesk mirror server on it, to profit from the faster data connection on my vps.