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I say it's a necessity not from a technical standpoint (of course you can just forward random ports directly to services), but from a "doing things the right way" standpoint. Especially if you're intending to expose services which aren't expressly designed with internet exposure in mind, a reverse proxy is hugely important for security as far as implementing SSL and authentication