I work a 9-5, and I don't like the idea of running my trading platform at home, on my crappy hardware, using my less than ideal utilities. With my luck my internet will go out, or my computer will catch on fire.
I am looking for suggestions on where to get hosting, and what to look for. My research has steered me away from the idea of VPS (virtual private servers), because I am at the mercy of whoever else is running on the server. There also seems to be reliability issues, in general, with many of these VPS cheap as dirt providers. So that leaves me with dedicated. I am thinking the cheapest CentOS dedicated server I can find with at least a gig of ram. Hard drive requirements are probably nill, etc, as JBT shouldn't demand much of anything when I am running in trade forward test mode. Any CPU that is offered on the market should do ok, I would think. Beyond that I think it all comes down to reliability. I am thinking that I want the manual, no assist, reset option in case the server goes rogue, or would that be overthinking things? What about firewall options, is that overkill? Oh yeah, and I would probably want to shop around for a good IB ping time, 50ms maybe? Has anyone else gone this route? I'd love to hear some comments on some companies and server specs, good or bad. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
