This is the solution I went with. Had to tinker a bit with the KeepAlive settings, but otherwise smooth sailing now! Thanks!

This is nice. I may steal it. To be honest, Reddit started dying for me when awards came out.

So I think I'm running into this problem a bit now. The reverse proxy and everything TCP and HTTPS works. The mail server I'm still trying to figure out. I'm using Wireguard to tunnel, do you know how to "bridge" that up to the VPS so that ports I need open to listen for incoming SMTP are also being listened on on the VPS?

So far I'm loving it. Trying to engage more here than I did on Reddit - hopefully it pans out.

I agree. I want to keep replying here but I feel like I may overdo it. Gotta be good content - not just for the sake of adding content ;P