Oddbean new post about login | logout Old school :) I'm just on clearnet for now, my load balancer IPS are public so I'm not too worried about tor yet unless I need to start worrying about my ISP. I'm not even sure I set my node up to connect over tor correctly yet. Between us, only my servers are on bleeding edge distros/updates ;)
what kind of load balancing setup are you using for lightning ? i didn't know that was even a thing
For lighting it's not load balancing, just traffic forwarding from my public IPS. But I assume larger nodes have to be doing something more than a single instance :)
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...
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!