Inspired by this comment to try to learn what I’m missing.
- Cloudflare proxy
 - Reverse Proxy
 - Fail2ban
 - Docker containers on their own networks
 
Another concern I have is does it need to be on a separate machine on a vlan from the rest of the network or is that too much?


I do this too. Took me a little effort to set things up, but now its so easy.