Well, I guess it depends on your use case. If you want to be able to access the Nextcloud instance you are running on a little home server, for example, it's ce

Well, I guess it depends on your use case. If you want to be able to access the Nextcloud instance you are running on a little home server, for example, it's certainly a much better solution to have a proper VPN for accessing your home network than to forward any traffic to all the ports that you have to use for the various protocols Nextcloud supports.