> Out of curiosity, what are the ramifications of exposing ports 80 and 443? Can these ports even be 'hacked'? These are the ports usually employed to serve HT

> Out of curiosity, what are the ramifications of exposing ports 80 and 443? Can these ports even be 'hacked'? These are the ports usually employed to serve HTTP and HTTPS traffic, which mean public-facing servers. Having a server listening to those ports is the precondition to have web servers running specific types of services, some of which have known vulnerabilities that can be and are exploited.