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There is a new story every week in Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast about why you should virtually never open ports. And if you do, you'd better IP restrict. Even, or especially, in commercial products. Cisco has a new CVSS 10.0 every other week just about
I run pretty much all my stuff through NPMplus. Then I have a firewall between my public and private networks in case something does get compromised. But I've had Plex exposed (on a non-default port) for literally years and nothing ever happens.
Why NPMplus and not the default NPM?
Primarily for the CrowdSec integration (one less thing to set up manually)
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/09/nginx-proxy-manager-vs-npmplus-which-one-is-better-for-your-home-lab/
Why link the fork of a fork in your original response?
uhhh did i? https://github.com/ZoeyVid/NPMplus is the link I meant to post for npmplus. its a fork of npm.