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I've been considering doing the same thing, but i'm not sure there's much actual benefit over feeling like there's more separation, because if someone accesses the vps, they get direct access into your server at home. What's your opinion?
Yes, definitely. If someone breaches the VPS, I've lost. That's why it's rather locked down using strict firewall rules, pubkey auth, fail2ban, etc.
No matter what you expose to the Internet, you're accepting a risk.
If I had to start over, I'd probably set up some form of cloud infrastructure with maybe Cloudflare for access control and security or whatever. My system started when I didn't have a lot of funds. So everything is kind of cobbled together.
The VPS is/was for hosting a few game servers and now I'm too lazy to migrate away, haha.
At least everything is based on configs that I keep in Git repositories. But I digress (again).