If you have IPv6 and don't have a firewall you could have acces directly to your server.
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Use a P2P VPN like ZeroTier. I use it even when I have router access because I'm hyper paranoid about exposing anything to the open Internet.
If you cannot forward a port in your router, then you need to run a tunnel to the outside. Look at VPNs, like Tailscale/Headscale, plain Wireguard and Cloudflare tunnels etc.
Use an outbound tunnel like the others recommended already.
For curiosity: a mobile hotspot in my mind is a device connecting to Internet via mobile data (LTE, 5G etc) and offering a WLAN. In this case this is your router. But mobile provider often offer no public reachability at all - in which case you are back to the tunnel.
This is my policy:
For publicly accessible services like a website, I use a cloudflare tunnel.
For restricted access to just a few users, I use a cloudflare tunnel and a cloudflare application to manage access authentication.
For my exclusive restricted access to the infrastructure, I used tailscale.
Zerotier, or any other VPN service that is outbound/cloud hosted.
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