I've set this up for myself 4 years ago and it just works, having a nginx instance online was really useful many times, eg. just recently I had to setup custom

I've set this up for myself 4 years ago and it just works, having a nginx instance online was really useful many times, eg. just recently I had to setup custom routing rules for services configured on AWS load balancer, just setup the same routing rules on my nginx and tunneled my local services - spent 10 minutes to get a working environment for debugging on local machine - with ngrok I would need to setup a local reverse proxy and tunnel that, small time saver but there have been a lot of instances like this, where I'm like - oh let me just throw this on my garbage server to transfer, let's host it there for a demo, let me install code server there for a workshop, etc. It was there, running on my domain, I know how it's setup - much better value proposition than ngrok for the same price. I also set it up for a team I worked with - took me 2 hours to get it running again and then the rest of the day to document and add keys for people and explain how and why they should use it. This was a team of 9 people - so in one day I did 1080$ - cost of small instance - for the year. That's above my daily rate so worth it for the owner as well. 10$/dev/month is not a lot - but this is such a trivial service that you setup once and forget, also there's a lot of friction in getting things like this approved and pretty much everyone has a some discretionary cloud provider budget.