At some point along your self-hosting journey, you'll realize that your local services aren't quite replacements for cloud subscriptions unless you can access them when away from your home network.

Can I check my understanding? I have a server I want to deploy behind a NAT'd domestic router (at a different premises to my own). It will run a web server that is only to be accessed locally. However ...

Since I’ve got my experimentation nodes and self-hosting workstations hooked up to my home network, I can log into them whenever I want to work on a DIY project. However, accessing my home lab setup ...