@mauve I'm sorry, that was very much "internet speak" - hyperbolic and crude. I apologize. I'm impressed that you even consider it and hope, for your sake, that you do employ one, and whatever stylistic framing makes it feel coolest to you seems to me to be the right framing, because nothing says 'cool' like easily avoiding stochastic suffering, nothing says avant-garde or trend-forward as much as being the only one in the room (or cabin) rocking a style
anyways you're a computer-toucher, you don't need me lecturing you about the risks of open ports to services with known vulns, and this is fedi, so not only did I accidentally answer a rhetorical question but had to follow that up with two paragraphs of badly phrased apologies comingled with attempted encouragement. Sorry!