It all started when a friend hooked me with an NFT…
After being introduced to the NFT space and being given my fist NFT, I poked around a good bit. I was able to win a few $SOL from the twitter space. Armed with my crypto, I went shopping.
I joined a few rooms on Discord and started to get involved in the community. I offered to lend a hand to one of the projects, if they could use it. Time passed and I was asked to look into running a bot for Discord; milktoastlab’s SolanaNFTBot.
The milktoastlab’s SolanaNFTBot evolved and improved over the year. A feature I mentioned, time stamps for logging, was also added during this time. Support for multiple candy machines were added, making the number of instances I needed to run fewer. I had 12 instance running for 5 projects.
It took me a few days to get my head around Docker and how to get things working. I had not worked with Docker previously. In short, I developed some understanding of Docker and the underlying structure to get things working.
I started off running a Solana RPC server connected to Figment’s DataHub. There were issues when it came to through put and number of queries for Figment’s free services. After looking into RPC providers a bit more, I settled on QuickNode’s $9 plan. As you can see from the graphic, the queries were over the allotted amount for $9/month, but not close to the next service tier at $49/month.
During the year QuickNode changed the way it billed and created accounts. There never seemed to be a way to migrate the accounts; though this has recently changed. Other than the account issue, the provided service was outstanding. I’ll continue to use them for my blockchain needs where applicable.
The experience was great. The NFT community was welcoming and I found those in it easy to talk to.