What CPUs are you running exactly? I was under the assumption my greatest bottleneck would be an 1Gbps LAN

I started setting up longhorn today. My hardware is a little it beefier, but I still am curious: what performance problems did you run into exactly?

This may be completely untrue but maybe the remote users could get a vpn with a server near yours? Without having the slightest idea that it does I could imagine it could help.

Look into let’s encrypt and acme. Requires a publicly registered domain though.