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Wait, so you have the full website exposed to the Internet and you're concerned about enabling ssh access? Because of the two ssh would likely be the more secure.
But either are probably "fine" so long as you have only trusted users using the site.
Yes, hosting the site seems much safer (at least in theory) since I am proxying it through cloudflare and I am planning on putting ngynx too on top of that this afternoon
(And signup is disabled, so hopefully only trusted users can access it)
I am not sure where this idea comes from, but putting a service behind a reverse-proxy does not increase its security in any way, unless you'd do authentication right at the reverse-proxy.
I spent my day today setting up nginx with mtls at work, and I actually think it's a great approach for what op is trying
Oh, I didn't want to suggest that there is no value in using a reverse-proxy, there certainly is. Just don't expect it to do anything for you in terms of application security. The application behind it is just as exposed as it would be without a proxy. So if there was a security flaw in that application, the reverse-proxy does not help at all.