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Paid service for Custom LN address without self hosting lnurlp file
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stirlingSep 4, 2024
I love Alby Hub and I want to support Alby, but I am not interested in the cloud services as it feels "less than" full self custody
I would be super interested in a 1000-2100 sat a month (or 1 dollar a month) product where Alby helps me set up a custom LN address that points from my own domain to the Alby Hub I run.
Sort of similar to buy a protonmail account... they have a wizard that tells me what to put in my domain DNS settings, and then wala you have an email from your own domain. It'd be great to have something similar where after editing my DNS as Alby instructs, that would hopefully forward to alby's servers and back to my node.
Not sure this is even possible, but if so, please offer this service!
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too technical for most users.
Try running lnbits with AlbyHub as the funding source. LNbits has extension called Lnurl Pay, where you can attached a lightning address with your own domain. Each wallet in LNbits can even have its own lnaddress.
Currently, Hubs need to be linked to Alby web accounts, and the Lightning Address is provided through your Alby web account. While you can customize the domain for your Alby web account, it's not yet possible to fully remove the Alby Account from the process. 😊
We do have plans to allow self-hosted setups without needing an Alby account, but this won't be available in the near future. For now, you can follow the instructions to set up a custom domain on your Alby account here:
https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-account/use-your-lightning-address/own-domain
Your ideas are valuable to us, and we'll definitely consider them. Thank you so much for your input! 🙏
jeanpaul Thank you for the response. I think an alby account still fits into this equation for what I'm looking for. It's more, like, instead of alby cloud hosting a hub and lightning node fully (which feels like not self custody), I'd like alby hub just to host my lnurlp file for the LN address, and have a wizard that tells you what to put in your own DNS domain settings to forward to that alby account, sort of like email. Maybe it's not possible?
So I own a domain, but I don't have the ability to host the lnurlp file, because I don't have a web server on it (my ISP blocks ports 80 and 443).
Specifically I'm using the domain to forward to my protonmail, as well as a couple of services running on myNodeBTC via reverse proxy. This reverse proxy setup is held together by popsicle sticks and bubble gum (chatgpt helping me. I don't know what I'm doing)
Right now Alby Hub forwards stirling@getalby.com zaps to my hub which is fantastic. But it would be nice if I could put something in my DNS notes on the domain, to forward traffic related to lightning to that getalby.com address. I would pay a dollar for this if it was possible and easy to do, similar to how email providers walk you through connecting a custom domain to their email service. ideally, stirling@myowndomain.com would forward lightning requests to stirling@getalby.com which then alby servers forward to my Hub, without me having to have my own HTTP server with a webpage hosting the LNurlp file?
Maybe this is just not something possible? Maybe what I'm asking is for is kind of ridiculous? I'm still figuring out how this stuff works haha
Maybe I'm asking for DDNS service? Maybe it is worth more than a dollar a month?