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Best advice is not to expose it publicly.
If you need access outside your LAN try using a VPN to your network with wireguard (wg-easy is nice) or tailscale (there are others as well).
If it's using a domain/subdomain make sure you use secure usernames and passwords, or things like authentik, authelia and the like to buff up security.
What about for services that is made public for anyone to use? VPN would not make sense here
Well, that's the crux. "Public for anyone to use" is a huge liability. No public service is really secure. They can be hardened but that's about it.
One way to harden a locally hosted setup could be to use Tailscale funnel. It's effectively a proxy for network traffic to one specific port of a machine on your network. You don't even need a static IP address or open ports here.
You're still vulnerable to problems with the specific service you're exposing though, so it's highly recommended to harden the service itself. Containerisation can be an option here but also systemd service hardening.
What's the effective difference security-wise between just opening a port and using a tailscale funnel to proxy the traffic on that same port?
I see two reasons:
That makes a lot of sense. I will set up Tailscale first then.