Hi dolbyman
Thank you for your trial.
About ticket, you’re talking about qnap support not here on forum.
When you talk about port forward. I must link the box port 80 to NAS port 80 and 433 also.
There is no other way. To secure, I changed the default port to join the NAS from outside.
If I want to access it from outside I need to link some port.
Except If, from every where I can use a VPN.
I filtered the IP address from only my country and some sites like let’s encrypt.
That’s why when I wanted to renew my certificate I stoped my firewall fo few moment
MTS