No.

We are a nation of people who have no choice but to spend our workdays side by side with our high school bullies. Eventually, under them.

Understand what a Reverse Proxy is, because you will not escape reading that phrase.

Host things with Docker for now. If you don’t start hosting until you understand everything, you won’t start for a long time and that is silly.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up. If you don’t know what Cloudflare is, read up on CDNs and why they exist. Their Zero Trust Tunnel is the easiest and safest way to go, as long as you don’t plan to do anarchy or sedition on it, just talk about your household plants and dogs and what not and you’re fine.