Wow this feature alone makes me want to try using it

If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan

Depends on the hardware, but my weak server can sometimes be overwhelmed with random ip trying to find a vulnerable service (accessing random port and path combination)

For me it’s mainly to aggregate multiple news site so I can more easily read them. It also helped me to centrally track which news article I have read across multiple devices