Database size service and temporary snapshot service revival

Stakeworld maintains a few services which are connected to it's rpc services. For example we keep a database size overview which gets its size information from the archive rpc nodes and is refered to in the polkadot wiki.

The last treasury requests for rpc services did not get through so we plan to scale down/stop these services, which would also mean we have to stop with the database size overview service. We would like to continue this service but will need some funding for this.

Also we revived our snapshot service. The service was still online but was not being updated anymore.

Since it was getting used more and more again in light of the recent beefy introduction which disables warp sync and the update notes referal to our snapshot service as a solution (for the time being) we refreshed our snapshots to a more current state and after discussions on element are also ~~considering~~ including rocksdb again. This will probably be only for a few months untill warp sync gets re-enabled with beefy.

See here for the proposal.

Regards,
Max | Stakeworld.io

Stakeworld runs services connected to its RPC nodes, like a database size overview.
The database size service gets data from archive RPC nodes and is mentioned in the Polkadot wiki.
Funding for RPC services was not approved, so Stakeworld might stop or reduce these services.
Stakeworld revived its snapshot service, which helps users sync their nodes faster.
The snapshot service is useful because Beefy, a new feature, temporarily disables warp sync.
Stakeworld is considering adding RocksDB support to the snapshot service for a few months.
They hope to continue these services but need funding to do so.
More details and a funding proposal can be found in their GitHub repository.

Source

Stakeworld maintains a few services which are connected to it's rpc services. For example we keep a database size overview which gets its size information from the archive rpc nodes and is refered to in the polkadot wiki.

The last treasury requests for rpc services did not get through so we plan to scale down/stop these services, which would also mean we have to stop with the database size overview service. We would like to continue this service but will need some funding for this.

Also we revived our snapshot service. The service was still online but was not being updated anymore.

Since it was getting used more and more again in light of the recent beefy introduction which disables warp sync and the update notes referal to our snapshot service as a solution (for the time being) we refreshed our snapshots to a more current state and after discussions on element are also ~~considering~~ including rocksdb again. This will probably be only for a few months untill warp sync gets re-enabled with beefy.

See here for the proposal.

Regards,
Max | Stakeworld.io