> I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don't want anything I don't own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way.
I do this for my personal web server, but also set up the network rule so that its SSH port is only reachable from my VPN.
IMO, this is super convenient. I can keep my public servers out of my home network (so clear separation of private/public networks), but still a VPN connection is required to log into any of my servers.