Has anyone used or evaluated Amazon EC2 windows VPS for using with trading? What is the experience compared to other VPS services? I basically need 2 GB of memory, 1 CPU, and focus on a fast GUI experience towards this VPS from my European local PC. I am evaluating this vs commericalservicenetworks.com and speedytradingservices.com
But are Interactive brokers in chicago? I thought they were in Connecticut with a gateway in Equinex NY4?
just21: You mentioned in an earlier post that IB has their own VPS that you can purchase from them, and that you need to contact the right person. I sent them a ticket about this, but they said they dont have this service. Care to expand yoru knowledge on this topic?
The main difference is Amazon is in VA, about 20-25ms to my broker in NY, and commericalnetworkservices is in NY, less than 1ms to my broker's servers. Both are super reliable, I am very satisfied now with CNS, the price is good for a NY location and I have not had an single outage or reliability issue in 2 years.
So how do you connect to the IB server in Chicago? I thought you could only choose US, Switzerland or Hong Kong?
Just ask them to transfer your account to their IB Chicago server. Their Chicago server: cdc1.ibllc.com