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I see this sentiment a lot.. and I don't get it.
Your server is going to be secure almost by default. Add the firewall and only open the ports you actually serve, and the majority of your work is done.
But if you follow a decent hardening guide you'll find many of those other little ways people can exploit the services you do leave open, and you'll lock those down too.
Then at that point, you have dealt with 99.99% of the script kiddie / bot threats that will ever find you.
What is the source of the fear when regular Joe's discounts themselves and say no I won't expose my hardware? You know the cloud is just someone else's computer, right?
I've been self hosting a publicly exposed domain which serves http, mail, etc for literally more than a decade. My logs are filled with background noise but my stuff is fine.
No tail scale, no cloud flare, my cloud is mine
Moral of my story - Don't be scared, try to be smart and keep your stuff updated via automation
Same probably more then a decade. I geo block so like 99% of the traffic never FETs past my firewall. Then I go though a ton of lists and crowdsec IPS and only keep the ones for my country and then block those. I know its not perfect and if someone wants to hack me they well but that is true of anybody.