RPC nodes are used to connect to the Interlay and Kintsugi networks. Dwellir and OnFinality are both providers in the Dotsama space to provide such services (think Infura for Dotsama).
It's generally a good idea to have two providers for redundancy in case one provider might go offline. However, the treasury should also not overspend on RPC node provision.
Current status
Currently, there are the following options for RPC nodes:
Update 20 June 2023
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Ben from Dwellir.
When we take a closer look at the data egress figures, we find ourselves in a position to provide a more refined price evaluation. The breakdown for this quarter is as follows:
Interlay: $663 per quarter
Kintsugi: $1621 per quarter
Combined Total : $2284 per quarter
These numbers provide us with a clearer picture of the costs involved and allow for a more accurate budget projection.
Secondly, I'd like to highlight Dwellir's impressive performance over the past year. We've expanded our utility from 1 billion RPC requests per month to an astounding 30 billion RPC requests this year alone, with virtually zero downtime. This represents a significant increase in the scale and reliability of our operations.
Looking ahead, Dwellir has ambitious plans to launch an API developer service before the end of 2023. This is part of our ongoing commitment to innovation and supporting our user community.
Finally, I want to assure everyone that Dwellir remains steadfast in our commitment to the decentralized vision of owning and operating bare metal machines. This approach significantly reduces the risk of downtime from third-party providers such as AWS. It's a critical part of our strategy to ensure consistent and reliable service to our users.
We appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to continuing to deliver high-quality services that meet your needs.
James from OnFinality here
There is some detail missing here from this proposal that may change the outcome. We've recently reduced our service price for Interlay and Kintsugi to be able to provide a fixed price service for Interlay and Kintsugi for $4,000 per quarter (total across both).
OnFinality for a long time has been the sole commercial operator of Interlay and Kintsugi nodes, as a result, we've received huge traffic to our Interlay and Kintsugi nodes. From inception of the Kintsugi API Service on 2023-10-12 until 2023-05-31 our Kintsugi and Interlay API service has:
As you can see, OnFinality is designed to massively scale to handle bursty traffic with almost zero downtime. Our previous advice from the Interlay governance body was to manage a public service where pure uptime and performance were the main considerations, our 99.99% uptime means that OnFinality was down for less than 14 minutes in the entirety of the last quarter shows that we have clearly achieved this, despite bursty traffic. That advice has since changed and we're pleased to be able to show the results of these cost controls with this fixed price service of $4,000 per calendar quarter.
Additionally, we now have better analytics on where our customers are making requests from (you can see some aggregated data here, so we will also move our nodes to better serve these users in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.