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 Self hosting Alby hub is the way to go.  If you can copy paste and docker-compose up -d you can self host a lightning node 
 Yes, thanks. I am aware of how to self host a lightning node. How has your experience been with it? Any issues? 
 No it was actually much easier than I thought it would be. There is some NWC black magic that links your node to your alby account. No DNS, port forwarding, reverse proxy or anything. Just start the container, open the web front-end, give it the email associated with your alby account and everything works.

If you have a big enough balance in your alby wallet it even opens a channel for you (at a discount I think). I spent 20k to open the channel but have 100k of available liquidity 
 Awesome. Thanks!