I use ZeroTier to take the hassle out of connecting back to my home network and detailed my experience a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30283987#30284754

I use Bitvise SSH commercially as a $100 one-time cost to secure port forwarding for RDP (Windows Pro) with Active Directory + TOTP auth. It's free for personal, partial-AD use.