DarthCoin on Nostr: For a simple Alby Hub you don't even need a VPS. A simple PC is enough. You can ...
For a simple Alby Hub you don't even need a VPS. A simple PC is enough.
You can choose as backend funding source a LDK node that run smoothly on that PC and open 2-3 channels and done. Not even need to open ports or touch your router, all run smoothly in the background.
Not all LN node must be PUBLIC or full nodes. This where many noobs do not understand.
A VPS is necessary when you run a full PUBLIC LN node at home in a proper machine, with full blocks synced etc and you do not want to reveal your home IP. Then you use a VPS with wireguard making a tunnel towards your node machine and all the node traffic is done through that VPS IP: So that will use very little resources of the VPS. Also you can use that VPS IP as your personal VPN, for the traffic of your all other devices.
But yeah you need to know how to do it.
I wrote here about this:
https://stacker.news/items/944885
You can choose as backend funding source a LDK node that run smoothly on that PC and open 2-3 channels and done. Not even need to open ports or touch your router, all run smoothly in the background.
Not all LN node must be PUBLIC or full nodes. This where many noobs do not understand.
A VPS is necessary when you run a full PUBLIC LN node at home in a proper machine, with full blocks synced etc and you do not want to reveal your home IP. Then you use a VPS with wireguard making a tunnel towards your node machine and all the node traffic is done through that VPS IP: So that will use very little resources of the VPS. Also you can use that VPS IP as your personal VPN, for the traffic of your all other devices.
But yeah you need to know how to do it.
I wrote here about this:
https://stacker.news/items/944885