Self-hosted blockchain node: DIY vs Chainstack Self-Hosted

Getting a blockchain node running isn't the hard part. The hard part is everything that comes after — keeping it synchronized, updated, monitored, and available, day after day. Most teams underestimate this. Deployment goes smoothly. Then a node falls out of sync at 2am. A protocol hard fork requires coordinated updates across every node. A client crashes and nobody gets alerted. This is where DIY self-hosting gets expensive — not in servers, but in engineering time. Why organizations run a self