This is a follow-up proposal on what we [submitted in August](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/910), to further fund the development of the RPC service and to cover the maintenance costs of it.

This new proposal includes two Milestones. 

**Milestone 1:** Run the Kusama RPC service on new dedicated hardware, to increase the performance of the service.

**Milestone 2:** Onboard a Rust developer to work with the RPC code to make it use resources much more efficiently. We found a problem, during the last quarter, with the scaling of the RPC-service and have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this bottleneck. We published a report in this [Github-issue](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/4064#issuecomment-979449201) about it. This optimization work will reduce the cost for all RPC service providers in the community. 


This proposal only covers Milestone 1 and 2 for now, while in upcoming maintenance proposals we will submit Milestone 1 (continued maintenance) and Milestone 3 (further development of the RPC code).

- Our RPC service is online and the pull request can be [found here](https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/6620). 
- Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B1AjPj8yfi4JPvR0sCdh0sdBGGduIPkeRxAwTpPGD-U/edit?usp=sharing). 

- They want to fund the development and maintenance of the RPC service.
- There are two milestones in the proposal.
- Milestone 1 is about improving the performance of the service.
- Milestone 2 is about optimizing the code to reduce costs for everyone.
- The full proposal can be read in the provided link.

#1204 Proposal: Update 1, RPC-node Dwellir