Professional Trading Server for ambitious traders
A trading server suitable for manual and automated trading!
The time has come! We are pleased to announce a new product, which many of our customers have been frequently asking for: A professional server for automated trading.
Our objective was to offer you a server without compromising in terms of quality. This is why the selection of a suitable hosting company was more difficult than expected: There are many hosting companies out there these days and their offers are almost countless. In order to find one which is suitable for trading, we had to do extensive research, we tested various vendors and at the end it took more time as previously planned.
Eventually we opted for the German hosting company Globalways AG based in Stuttgart. For a fairly long time we have been trading on their servers, especially managed accounts on behalf of an asset management company. Surely, the company is not the cheapest on the market, but to our knowledge and experience it is one of the best. We are very satisfied in terms of the company’s performance, reliability and support. At the end of the day it is also a matter of trust, as trading as such is complex enough, any additional server problems, which tend to be time-consuming, expensive and annoying, should be avoided.
Service description:
• All servers are located in Germany (Frankfurt and Stuttgart) and thus enable low latencies. Exactly for that reason the servers are also perfectly suitable for scalpers and scalping EA’s!
• Every server has its own guaranteed CPU (2,3 GHz), there is no performance sharing or overbooking!
• 20 GB hard disk storage space and 1024 MB RAM.
• 1 GB/s network connection for maximum data throughput. It’s 20x faster than VDSL (DSL 50.000) - an absolute must-have for trading!
• Data storage on a RAID6! Even the loss of 2 hard drives will not lead to any data loss for you!
• Up to 100 GB data traffic per month are included.
• No updates during trading hours! If an update is required, we will perform it during the weekend!
• The operating system is Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server CAL.
• Complete specification of services Service_Description.pdf.
Especially the guaranteed availability of a dedicated CPU for every single customer, which enables the best possible execution of all calculations required for trading, is a very important feature. Most server offers do not guarantee for this, or at least don’t clearly indicate it. However, its importance for successful trading could not be stressed more!
Many hosting companies are cutting cost by overbooking the virtual machines (VM’s), i.e. the performance of one CPU is split between several VM’s, thus among several customers. Due to the fact that trading is computationally intensive, which means that for trading applications CPU’s need to perform many calculations within a short period of time, overbooking leads to a perceivable loss of performance.
In general a resource-sharing/overbooking is unproblematic, if programs as Word or Excel are run on a server with split-resources. Then the single user would not even notice or be impaired by this problem.
However, especially in times of heavy market movements, when a clear-cut execution of all calculations and trading-operations is crucial and when every tick given away costs much money, i.e. when the full hardware-performance and bandwidth are urgently required, you really don’t want to share your CPU with “the trader next door”!
We are aware that, based on the mere server costs, our offer cannot be classified as low-price and won’t be suitable for tackling the mass market for server offers. Of course we might as well have created an offer for 15, - or 18, - €, but (unfortunately) this would have never met the performance requirements a trading server needs to offer, so we deliberately refrained from doing that.
