Why you should look at QuikNodes
Great infrastructure is currently really affordable
I was running a parity node on my notebook until about January when it was starting to consume so much disk space that it there was no way that I could keep both the main chain and the test net on disk at the same time.
For a while I used Infura (and still do for a lot of my work) but Infura kinda is there to facilitate “normal use” of ethereum.
There are times when having your own dedicated node makes sense
- Bulk pushing transactions
Having your own Parity node allows you to cache up to 4k transactions with the default configuration. You will need to replace your nonce function (using getPendingTransactionCount) with the parity_nextNonce function which parity had to introduce in order to keep up with its blazing fast transaction processing. - Event monitors
I have written a few customised block explorers. To do this needs access to the transaction logs. Infura does not seem to provide wholesale event monitoring. Quiknodes do. Since you can create a websocket connection, you can subscribe to events or simply loop using event filters.
Considering that a quiknode only costs 0.14 ether a month to run (for a 1 year subscription) and given current ether prices, signing up now could prove really economical.
You can get quiknodes for the following networks
- Ethereum Mainnet
- Kovan
- Ropsten
- Rinkeby
- Ethereum Classic
- Morden (Classic test net)
- Expanse Network
And where applicable you can select between a geth and Parity node.
It should be noted that you need to keep your access details private so you should not use a QuikNode to serve a javascript front end unless you want the world riding on your QuikNode.
If this quick intro was useful and you want to subscribe — why not use this link to extend the life on my node a bit longer?
