Ah yes, typical slopware page. Imaginary comparisons, fluff text. No thanks. I’m not hosting generated code on my network.

How is it privacy-first? Or is the post AI generated too?

Ah cool, didn’t know!

By setting up a reverse proxy you redirect the traffic through that specific proxy which means less open ports (basically just 80/443), less monitoring, the ability to easily put a WAF inbetween, etc.

Set up a reverse proxy with https always on. And get a good (physical) firewall, preferably something akin to opnsense, pfsense, openwrt. Exposing is always a risk, and if you do want it, you have to bear the responsibility for your own security. Keep things up to date, set up monitoring and a good logging system (Wazuh) comes to mind.

Exposure means a security risk. How you deal with that security risk is your choice.

Cloudflare and the likes forbid usage of their stuff for these things.