Short Description: Operate RPC services for the community for July, August and September
TLDR
Dwellir is a leading IaaS (infrastructure as a service) team providing RPC infrastructure to more than 25 projects in the Dotsama ecosystem. We are proposing to run geographically distributed public Astar, Shiden and Shibuya RPC API Services and providing free developer community access endpoints.
This grant will enable us to continue the services we currently provide which entails:
Hosting multiple instances of the Astar, Shiden and Shibuya nodes
24/7 Monitoring of core functions including scaling mechanism
Continuous security improvements
Continuous updates, upgrades, optimisations
Communication with development teams (where necessary)
Currently we operate two clusters in Northern Europe, one in North Africa, and one in West Africa.
Costs
Dwellir operates one Shiden and one Astar collator. The earnings from the collators have been subtracted from this treasury proposal, the exact numbers are shared in the full proposal.
The final cost is $7,782.3, which is equal to 180,983 ASTR.
The conversion rate is $0.043/ASTR, based on a 7-day average price on the day of 18th of October 2023
Update 18th of October: The conversion rate of USD to ASTR has been updated on the 18th of October. As a result of the updated conversion rate the total amount of requested ASTR has changed.
This is our Astar collator and this is our Shiden collator. These collators run on independent nodes that are different from the public RPC nodes.
Regarding the endpoint address above, they represent three different nodes that are public (each node both accepts https and wss connections).
However, in reality we have several Astar, Shiden and Shibuya nodes on different data centers as backups. E.g if you look at Telemetry and search for Dwellir on the Shiden network, you will see at least two Shiden nodes.
I am in favor of the proposal as I personally use the Dwellir Endpoints and have encountered no issues with them.
However, I do have a question regarding the proposal. I noticed that the quarterly cost for Astar/Shiden/Shibuya Parachains is $15,000. Could you please provide a breakdown of how this $15,000 is allocated among these categories:
-Provision of bare-metal machines in two European locations
-Round-the-clock monitoring of core functions, including the scaling mechanism
-Ongoing enhancements in security
-Continuous updates, upgrades, and optimizations
-Liaison with development teams (as needed)
Approximately 70% av the cost is related to the actual hardware and co-location for the machines in the two different sites, and to cover for costs related to 24/7 monitoring.
The remaining 30% is related to the on-going development/tinkering work of the software.
50% of the payments that we receive are from the collator services (Astar and Shiden collators).
