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But having a reverse proxy would enable someone getting access to it to read traffic, while having a VPN Tunnel won't.
Your reverse proxy should have a cert with HTTPS.
Tbf, technically data is still decrypted at the reverse proxy and then re-encrypted. So if someone manages to reconfigure the proxy or read its memory somehow they could read traffic in plain text.
However then since they have to control the VPS, they could also get a new cert for that domain (at least the way I’ve configured it) even if it was passed as is to the real host via a tunnel and read the plaintext data that way, so I don’t think a tunnel protects against anything.
I use this setup and don’t terminate SSL at the VPS and solely tunnel the encrypted traffic over a wire guard tunnel to the home lab where SSL is terminated.
The VPS solely serves to move the traffic from an external IP to an internal one.
It’s possible that someone could log into my server, change the nginx config to terminate SSL and then siphon data but it would take a few steps and can be somewhat mitigated by stapling the SSL certs that should be seen from the homelab.