After running a Raspberry Pi node at home that died without warning, I moved everything to a bare metal VPS on Contabo. No prepackaged solutions — just Ubuntu 24, Docker, Bitcoin Core 28.1, LND 0.20.1, and a stack I assembled one by one.
The article covers the full setup including real bitcoin.conf and lnd.conf, SSH hardening, UFW + Fail2ban, channel strategy mistakes (don't open to big nodes — learned the hard way), ZeroTier private network for monitoring without exposing any public ports, automatic channel.backup redundancy, BOS via Telegram, and LiT for auto fee management.
7 channels live, node visible on Amboss if you want to verify it's not theoretical.
Full guide (paid): https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/how-i-built-my-own-bitcoin-lightning
Happy to answer questions here.
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