“Dune was previously self hosting Parity archive nodes. We had been struggling for a while with various memory leaks and other bugs that seemed to get no attention or prioritization. One day I woke up to an alarm from our last node. It had corrupted its disk overnight because it had run out of space on its 4TB drive. At this point I had to recreate our VMs from a snapshot from a few days before, but this was a somewhat manual process and would take several hours to get online. In the back of my mind I knew node providers such as Infura, Alchemy, and QuikNode existed, but we had never really used them. I read the Infura docs but they did not offer tracing at the time. I then contacted Alchemy who we had been in touch with previously, but they were not self-serve at the time and this was in the middle of the night in the US. Then I logged on to QuikNode, entered my credit card details and changed the URL in our kubernetes config map and everything worked. Out of the box. No further configuration. No custom code. And we literally went from spending $1000/mo in credits maintaining our archive node, to spending $35/mo at QuikNode.”