well, yes, LSPs and lightning payment providers handling tons of payments tend to have elaborate routing setups and multiple lightning nodes they load balance over, but maybe a bit early to worry about if you're just getting started 😀 

anyhow, happy to help test connectivity, just let me know once you get there 

 I'm always on the lookout for enterprise solutions to simple problems XD

Yeah thanks again! 

 If you care about privacy there is one more advanced setup:

you create a node with all the connectivity, channels, etc.

then you create a private node with one private channel to your "public" node.

But give your strugle with funding your channels it's probably not for you, tho... 

 Not yet. I have to convince myself it's okay to have that many sats tied up in an extremely hot wallet. I'm a stamped steel cold wallet kind of guy. Coins go in, and don't come back out. 

 I don't think it's possible. You can't run the same node in multiple instances. ever. That would lead to forced closes of all channels if there was a slightest difference in their state. 

 right ! it can't be done by simply running multiple lightning nodes with the same key, that would become a mess
some lightning software (Eclair, for example) can be explicitly configured to split a node over multiple servers
i don't remember exactly and couldnt find the details yesterday but there are also some approaches possible where the last hop is virtual 

 hmm, virtual hops, interesting. never heard of it. Thank!