Blast support for Astar, Shiden, and Shibuya (Q4 2023 & Q1 2024)

Astar Astar Initiatives
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Hi Blast team,

First of all, thanks for your continuous support from the infrastructure level.

After reading your previous two support proposals, I have two questions below:

Blast support for Astar, Shiden, and Shibuya (Oct 2022-Mar 2023)
Blast support for Astar, Shiden, and Shibuya (Q2 & Q3 2023)

  1. The monthly total infrastructure cost seems decreasing. Mainly it was due to the reduction of the total number of nodes, but I also can see that the montly cost of ‘Account maintenance and on call engineers’ is decreasing from $2k to $1.5k, and now $1k. Reduced cost is good, but curious to know if there is any reason for that.
  2. If I understand correctly, dedicated servers from Hetzner, OVH, and Digital Ocean are being used for nodes. Specifically, the infrastructure cost for Shiden node is reduced by roughly 30%. Is there any specific reason behind of it?