Voltage is a company that provides solutions for individuals and companies to run LN nodes on voltage's infrastructure. Id like to foment a discussion on this.
Here are my thoughts:
first time i heard of voltage, i thought it was against bitcoin's ethos of self-sovereignty, run your own full node, "dont trust, verify", etc. This is because you have to trust them to run your LN node, may expose your funds to them (of course they, as a companie, wouldn`t do that but employees can be compromised or exploited through social engineering).
However, after some reflections, I conclude their services are actually very positive to the ecossystem: for individual users, they release us of the pain of having to set up a LN node, having it connected to the network 24/7, disk usage, etc (which is hard for non-tech people or for people that cant afford the hardware or dont have time to maintain). For companies, they provide good solution to be able to use LN as business tool, since it frees the company from having to hire specialized tech persons to set up LN (even if the setup was on the company's own infrastructure or in the cloud).
There is really near no drawback in a enterprise context to use voltage or other 3rd party node provider, while in a individual context it could be argued that it is better for the individual to run their own LN node if they want more sovereignty and control.
But, when it comes to running a bitcoin full node, i still think individuals should run their own full node (which is much easier than running a ln node) and that using 3rd party should only be done if you are also using tor or i2p in order to not associate your blockchain queries with your real public ip address.