I thought nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueq555fk2 gives you a self-custody node and all you have to do is to open a channel 

 That’s one option, but if you’re running a dedicated node there isn’t anything remotely as powerful to connect to it. 

 I suppose you can run a dedicated node on a virtual private server  

 That is one option.