I have a few things that I host from my house. I have read that it’s better practice to route stuff through a VPS to not expose your home IP.
Here’s what I’ve done so far: VPN setup on VPS with successful routing of containers. Confirmed by using a CLI IP check within the container which returned the VPS IP. I used PiVPN because I know it and it’s easy to set up.
Where I got stuck: I pointed Nginx to the supposed IP:port of the connection, but couldn’t get it to load.
What should I do next?
If the VPS acts as the VPN provider and exit point, then yes, it should show the VPS IP address.
This is, of course, assuming that OP is using a VPN as per the original use case for linking remote computers over a virtualized LAN, and not the modern bastardization as a glorified proxy for obfuscating your IP.