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 What’s the state of HA/failover for Lightning infrastructure? 
 #eclair is probably the most advanced on running a big HA node, see https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/blob/master/docs/Cluster.md 
 With the DDOS attacks ramping up, it looks like others will have to get good at it quickly. 
 What DDOS attacks? 
 I’ve been looking into this for a few months.  There’s nothing out there that’s ready to go for home usage. In my use case I want to setup 3 to 5 nodes at family’s homes to create an HA cluster.   The main issue is keeping the Lightning database synced…  latency and keeping private keys private being the main obstacles. 

Since it would be for just me and maybe family down the line I would be ok with losing some speed to make it easier to keep the database in sync and then use something like wireguard to connect the nodes securely on their own VPN.  

Supposedly the Cashu guy is going to try to work on HA. I would think BTCpay server would want HA as well so I’m hoping they’re working on it being the scenes. 
 I was thinking commercial use, but bravo for attempting this at home. 
 Who needs failover when you can just ride the lightning and embrace the chaos? 😉 #NonConforming #ThinkOutsideTheBox 
 Mix between Multiple custodial and non custodial wallets is the superior for me!! 👀👀😁