“By integrating NodeShift’s scalable computing platform, NodeOps has been able to confidently grow our Node deployment services and expand our offering to generalized DePIN Compute services. As the leading AI-powered, economically-secured, permissionless DePIN orchestrator, NodeOps is committed to simplifying the builder experience. This partnership with NodeShift allows us to focus on product innovation, while NodeShift ensures the high availability and performance that our expanding Web3 ecosystem demands.”
Naman Kabra
Founder and CEO of NodeOps
Overview
NodeOps, a trusted Node-as-a-Service provider, caters to both Web3 developers and non-technical Node operators seeking high availability, secure networks, and scalable infrastructure for their blockchain applications.
Over the past year, NodeOps has leveraged NodeShift’s compute platform to power its growing customer base and to allow NodeOps to expand its services into the generalized DePIN Cloud Compute market. This partnership has enabled NodeOps to offer robust Node performance, reduce operational overhead, and maintain a highly reliable environment even as transaction volumes, Node use cases, and customer demands scale.
The Challenge
Growing Demand for Web3 Services
As smart contract use cases expanded, NodeOps faced an influx of Web3 developers seeking access to Nodes that could handle higher throughput and lower latency.
Ensuring consistently low latency and high availability across multiple blockchain networks became increasingly complex as NodeOps scaled.
Cost & Operational Complexity
Managing an ever-growing number of specialized, high-performance Nodes introduced high overhead, from hardware costs to system administration and monitoring.
The complexity of infrastructure updates, security patches, and load balancing was straining NodeOps’s internal DevOps and SRE teams.
Reliability Requirements
Why NodeShift?
NodeShift offers a fully managed infrastructure solution optimized for Web3 workloads. Its key differentiators included:
Horizontally Scalable Compute for handling sudden spikes in transactions.
Resilient and Secure Environment tailored to blockchain Node hosting.
Simplicity of Deployment, allowing NodeOps to manage multiple Node networks under a platform.
Predictable Pricing Models that aligned with NodeOps’ usage patterns and growth.
Implementation & Integration
Migration Strategy
In a phased approach, NodeOps transitioned its existing Node clusters (e.g., Ethereum, Polygon, and Binance Smart Chain) onto NodeShift’s infrastructure.
NodeShift’s DevOps specialists collaborated with NodeOps team to map current performance requirements and set up custom monitoring parameters, transaction throughput, and memory usage.
Operational Enhancements
Security & Compliance
NodeShift’s environment was pre-hardened for enterprise use, with dedicated firewall rules, DDoS mitigation, and identity management.
NodeOps integrated NodeShift’s compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
Results
After a year on NodeShift’s compute platform, NodeOps observed:
Scalable Growth: Seamless ability to add or remove Node capacity based on network usage.
Performance ConsistencyFaster block confirmations and lower transaction latency during peak hours.
Reduced Operational Overhead: Freed up DevOps resources to focus on product innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance.
Enhanced Reputation: NodeOps strengthened its position as a reliable partner in the Web3 ecosystem, retaining existing customers while attracting new developer communities.
Metrics to Highlight Value
To quantify the impact, NodeOps and NodeShift identified several metrics across technical, operational, and business domains. These KPIs demonstrate the value of this partnership:
Uptime Percentage
Uptime Percentage: Maintaining a 99.99% uptime for Mainnet Nodes.
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): Time increased, showing improvement in Node reliability over the 12-month period.
Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR): Reduced time to recover from Node outages, thanks to NodeShift’s rapid failover and automated provisioning.
Performance & Scalability
Average Transaction Latency: Measured pre- and post-migration (e.g., a 30% reduction in latency for contract calls).
Peak Throughput: increase by 20% the maximum transactions per second (TPS) supported during high-traffic events without service degradation.
Sync & Boot Times: Improvements in Node synchronization and startup (e.g., a 20% faster blockchain sync speed).
Cost Efficiency
Infrastructure Cost per Node: a reduction of 60% in costs compared to DigitalOcean after moving to NodeShift’s managed environment compared to on-premises or self-managed cloud solutions.
Operational Expenditure (OpEx) Reduction: Quantifying saved staff hours and reduced maintenance overhead.
By partnering with NodeShift, NodeOps alleviated the operational burdens of maintaining large-scale Node clusters and enhanced its overall performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. These improvements led to deeper customer trust, an expanded service portfolio, and the ability to grow sustainably as the Web3 landscape evolves.
