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I bought a cheap VPS for $12/year and a domain for $16/year, but when I read the albyhub documentation, I found out that to run a lightning node, the VPS needs at least 1GB of RAM. My VPS only has 256MB of RAM. Is there an alternative to albyhub that requires less resources?

PS: I hate lightning and I don't want to spend more on it.

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ 8mo ago

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

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saeed 8mo ago

Thank you, but I have a few problems:

1- I live in Iran and am under US sanctions, so most LSPs do not serve me.

2- WireGuard is blocked in Iran, but OpenVPN is open.

3- I do not have enough sats to open a channel.

4- I am not a newbie, I have been a Linux user since 2007, and setting up a Linux VPS is easy for me, but I am too old to bother with documentations and codes. So I think using a custodial LN provider is more suitable for me.

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ 8mo ago

Because of point 3... you must go on the each cashu path... I do not see too many options for you.

saeed 8mo ago

OK, Thank you🙏

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ 8mo ago

I tried to zap you but failed. I see you are using a defunct Lifpay LN address in nostr. You should change it.

Here I wrote a guide for such cases, to start with wallets for zaps.

https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/getting-started-stack-sats-en.html

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ 8mo ago

in regards of point 4, you can start with a VPS paid with sats https://lnvps.com/

Or use https://rizful.com/ - a LN node in the cloud. So you can open LN channels with whatever LSP you want, no restrictions.

saeed 8mo ago

rizful is a good option, another friend suggested it to me in nostr yesterday. thank you.

Rizful.com (zap tester) 8mo ago

We did some zap tests on this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, at saeed1@lifpay.me, over a period of about 4 hours. In each case, we found that your lightning address server did not respond correctly. (The failure point was when we did a GET request to your specified callback URL: https://lifpay.me/api/ln/lnurl/payreq/saeed1_013055 ). Your server did not produce an invoice, thus the zap failed. The error we got was "Receive or send bitcoin is currently unavailable, please refer to announcement. ". You might want to look into using a cloud-based Lightning node which is optimized for Nostr zaps, to get your zaps working.