Phoenix is really great. Just be sure to start off with a sizeable channel. For instance if you think you'll be spending 100k sats in the next few months, maybe open a 300k sat channel.
Running Albyhub is pretty easy, its like 12 bucks a month or something and you can run it in the cloud, connect to a large lsp like zeus or something and then voila your running your own lightning node in the cloud, can connect different wallets to it like coinOS or Alby Go or Zeus, I set it up around 5 months ago again, havent really touched it, the thing just works, litterally just have 1 lightning channel.
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