Any server? How do you run a public website? Even if you put it behind a load balancer, the load balancer is still a “server exposed to the internet”
Any server? How do you run a public website? Even if you put it behind a load balancer, the load balancer is still a “server exposed to the internet”
Public facing services routed through a firewall or waf (cloudflare) always.
Backend access trivial with Tailscale, etc.
Public IP never needs to be used. You can just leave it an internal IP if you really want.
A firewall is a server, too, though.
Thanks. Not sure of your point.
The firewall could run on a piece of dedicated equipment, where it might not be a server, or it could run in a container, on a dedicated computer, which might be the server.
Again, I'm only speaking about what I have experience with in addition to my past experience and have surprisingly found to run well despite thinking I'd never self-host again.