Chainstack can be used as a solution 100% hosted in your data center or with any selected components deployed in the location of your choice.
Features | Chainstack-managed hosting | Hybrid hosting |
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Monitoring | Complete node monitoring: node availability and node health. | Partial node monitoring: node availability is monitored. |
Analytics and logging | Full node logging and resource consumption logging. For Chainstack-managed hosting nodes, request metrics are collected: number of requests, a breakdown of method calls, and server response data. For dedicated Chainstack-managed hosting nodes, request metrics, CPU, memory, and storage usage data are collected. | Analytics solution setup on request. |
Backups | Daily automated backups that enable the provision of fully synced nodes in a matter of hours | You can use your own backup solution available on the market. |
Bolt | Dedicated nodes are deployed as synced and near-instantly available for use. | A node must be synced from scratch, which takes weeks or months. To reduce the sync time to hours, a manual snapshot transfer is also available on the Enterprise subscription. |
Billing | You pay for the subscription and the node usage. | You pay for the subscription and node management fee. |
Cloud providers and regions | It is possible to use the default Chainstack cloud providers to run a node on. | You are not limited to the Chainstack supported cloud providers. Use your own cloud infrastructure. |
Benefits | Easy to deploy and manage nodes. Low operation costs. Near-instant node availability. | Blockchain is completely running in your cloud, which is useful in various scenarios, including compliance related concerns. For any application running on top of blockchain, the latency will benefit from the choice to colocate the application on the same server as the node. |