Security Caveat: Locked out of my server while traveling

I'm still on my self-hosting kick as of late, while also questioning my life choices around hosting my own git forge. The last week or so has included what appears to be a DDoS attack rather than some coordinated scraping effort by a sketchy LLM company. Open source will prevail, even if I'm being stubborn about giving in and setting up Anubis. WordPress has been its own other adventure, but this isn't meant to be a post about those security caveats. I'll save those for another week. The current dilemma is that I'm far from home, ~30 hours away up in Rhode Island. I'm sitting at Audrey's Coffee House & Lounge, where it was a bit too early to order a BLT. As I sat down to knock out a quick blog post, I realized very quickly that I didn't think things through as well as I had thought. I keep my servers pretty well hardened, including but not limited to limiting access to certain services / ports to specific IP addresses. This tends to not be much of a problem. I do a lot of work from…