I have used an ubuntu EC2 instance in the past and I felt the system was pretty stable. I didnt test the limits and the maximum I have run it continuously is about 10 days. Though the cloud does suffer outages at times, it seems to be localized to a single EC2 region.
Interestingly, I remember reading somewhere that when a region is degrading, it often does so gracefully and you get an email mentioning it. I have obviously not experienced it though :) On Aug 10, 2:52 am, shaggsthestud <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
