What a waste of resources (yet AI seems to take all the blame nowadays). So he can login to the server in order to run curl, but he can't use scp/sftp?
I run Tailscale on all my devices, all the time. This particular VPS isn't exposed on any public ports. This is better for everything, and saves me – not a Linux sysadmin by trade – a ton of time.
As a result, I get the very convenient and fast `tailscale file cp` command for free. You're telling me that the minuscule number of extra cycles it takes over `scp` is a "waste of resources"? Have a look at yourself.