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Except that everything is under your control and not managed by a third party, not much I think.
If this setup works for you and you're happy with it, just keep it going.
If you have time to spare, want to learn new things, tinkerer arround with network security, certificates, DNS, reverse proxy and, and, and... You can give it a try in a virtual machine and docker containers. But keep in mind that's not an easy way and involves a lot of personal time before you get a GOOD working self-hosted / exposed services.
I wouldn't recommend to open any port on your router except for a secured tunnel like wireguard and connect to your services through that tunnel. Opening port 443/80 on your router is bound to some heavy automated scanning and brute force by bots. If you don't have the necessary knowledge/tool/hardware, this is just going to put you at risk of ddos and remote attacks.
That's way something like cloudflare is populare, they most of the time take care of that nuisance and also why something like wireguard is popular among the selfhosting community.
I’ve recently introduced CrowdSec and crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin into my setup and it’s really great to see it block all those spam bots and brute force attempts.