yeah and you can also with that vps you can configure it to have your own vpn for the rest of your devices.
you are in control of all traffic and no need to buy a separate vpn service.

and there are many vps providers where you can pay with sats and no kyc.

DarthCoin

bitcoin_beginners

Why bitcoiners are so "in love" using Tor for their BTC LN nodes?

+1 @DarthCoin for calling what it is.

> And here are some very good step-by-step guides about how to run a LN node behind a VPS tunnel, @Hakuna wrote these excellent guides:
> https://github.com/TrezorHannes/Dual-LND-Wireguard-VPS
> https://github.com/TrezorHannes/Dual-LND-Hybrid-VPS

For what it's worth, those guides run not only on a $6/month VPS as I've outlined in the guides, but I _heard_ (not verified) that it even runs on the freebie tier Oracle and MSFT Cloud offers. It doesn't consume any of the expensive infra stuff: CPU / storage / memory, it's mostly commodotized traffic. 

But yes, you probably need to KYC, or at least give some credit card input. However, if you shy away from costs, $0 and you'll have public obfuscation of your IP, reliability and speed - the key pillars of the Lightning Node Runner. 🏃