I replaced a VPN with my own VPS and it's awesome
Sometimes it's best to self-host on someone else's hardware.

I've been self-hosting apps on my NAS for a while now, and one of the things that has been a pain to handle is accessing those services outside my network. I've set up several reverse proxy options, and none worked properly, partly because I don't have a static IP and DDNS is hit-and-miss.