Leave that Start9 + Alby alone as it is.
Try a new phoenixd + alby Hub on another simple PC.

>trying phoenixd for managing liquidity.

There's nothing to manage, it works exactly like a normal Phoenix wallet.

Its working great with start9, I'm just interested in trying phoenixd for managing liquidity.

If you already have it running with your own LN backend from Start9, why do you need anything else?

AlbyHub + phoenixd is more for those users that:

Design

A wallet Ui for your Phoenixd Private Server

deSign_r

If you already have it running with your own LN backend from Start9, why do you need anything else?

AlbyHub + phoenixd is more for those users that:
- do not have a proper LN node
- do not want to get involved with managing LN channels and liquidity
- do not want to buy real HW for a node, it can be run on any simple PC with 4GB RAM and a decent Linux (even on Windows). Or can be run on any cheap VPS.