I recommend installing Tailscale, and using a firewall outside of the VPS like how Linode or EC2 does it. Don't even allow port 22 at all... Tailscale let's you

I recommend installing Tailscale, and using a firewall outside of the VPS like how Linode or EC2 does it. Don't even allow port 22 at all... Tailscale let's you access all your stuff without needing to expose ssh ports.