On Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:53:41 AM UTC-8, Klaus wrote: > > Hi, > > the approach I am using - micro-server at AWS, running Ubuntu. > Experience, I used it one year for free - and now subscribed for a > (26month-plan for $70- resold 3year) > Costs are: $3 / month based on the forward fee and about $4-5 (based on > research usage) / month. > (If you factor in the free year, it is of course better ;-). > Ping time - I used the same address as above, suppose that is IB - is > about 8-9 ms. Not sure whether the > difference in time is important in this range (1s frame of JBT). > > Memory is slightly larger as with the cheapest Linode. Not sure how the > cpus compare, Linode does not seem to provide information on that. Uptime: > did not have any problems with that, but Ubuntu has basically on a weekly > basis security relevant updates. Some of them require reboot for > installation, so I cannot say how long the max time is. > > Going back to the initial question, I would how say, it depends what you > want it for, exactly: > - just trading: then AWS is clearly the cheapest option and the rest > comparable to other providers. > Forward-testing (is basically like trading, but ping-times are even less > relevant). > > Backtesting: here CPU-power comes in & > & optimizing: like backtesting, but in addition - no of parallel cpus come > in. > While I did this always on my private computer, also an option where you > take on demand a virtual server might be appropriate as well, as then you > can also take a high-end system just for an hour or two. > > Hope this helps. > > Klaus > > > > > Am Samstag, 9. März 2013 00:23:57 UTC-3 schrieb Eugene Kononov: >> >> >> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.788/3.247/8.414/1.029 ms >>> >>> >> >> This looks good, too. What about the quality of the network connection, >> Judson? Did you notice any "TWS reconnection" entries in the JBT event log >> while running JBT on Linode server? >> >
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