Network config confuses the hell out of me.

haha same 🥲

The goal is to route the services through the VPN and point Nginx to them… but it doesn’t work.

I think you got it reversed. I want the container traffic to go through the VPN to the VPS and I want the reverse proxy on the VPS to point to that container.

I want the website (hosted at my house) to be accessible through the VPS so my IP isn’t directly exposed.