Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 1215

Has anyone successfully ran an automated strategy on a "small" instance of EC2? This box will only be used for executing the strategy. I am trying to determine which size box I need as the prices vary greatly.

Thanks

Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 110

The small works. Windows Server 08 uses very little ram.

Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1947

The two biggest considerations with Amazon over a private hosting company are going to be connectivity and connectivity. With Amazon you will be up almost 100% of the time but they are located in Virginia (mainly) so there is a bit of extra latency there depending on your broker.

Another thing, if you can swing W7 vs. Server 2008, Backblaze is cheap for a basic backup (unlimited space) but they only work with W7 right now as Server OS is seen as something enterprise.

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