Managed RPC vs self-hosted nodes: when renting stops making sense
Managed RPC providers are the right call below roughly steady production load — you pay for convenience and skip the ops. Past that point, per-request billing turns your growth into their revenue, rate limits arrive exactly when you need headroom, and the chain you need next may not be on the menu. Self-hosting inverts the economics but traditionally costs you specialists. This article prices both honestly — and shows the third option: owning nodes without staffing a node team.
