Anyone used mytradehost for vps?

I am looking at either mytradehost or speedy trading servers for a VPS to run my system. Mostly just want stable internet and power, not concerned with ping times and speed. It seems a lot of people have used speedy, but mytradehost.com is the second google result for "vps trading server". But I could not find a review of it from someone any where. So just wondering if anyone has experience with them and if that experience was good or bad.

Thanks

 

Are you trading stocks or futures?

 

Just futures for now. I emailed them and they got back to me within hours with a large email telling me what they think fits my needs, they seem to have pretty good customer service.

 

Personally Amazon AWS but also Softlayer, the multi-nationals use these and are running a 24x7 for Tradestation & eSignal. Was setup by some specialists and pings sms (60m+) or iphone twitter messages (<5m) when signals are hit.

It looks like it's the foothold in to automated trading for small retail given their pricing structure, low latency is all very nice but you're never going to compete with HFTs. Basically you get some support, we just receive a timed ping from the server instead, currently every 6hrs workday but could be 1m or 10s if wanted.

Almost any Windows box plus RDC will work, it comes down to what infrastructure you need behind it, both of your choices will give you a level of certainty, but can never match enterprise. What guarantee do you need 80%, 95%, 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%, the higher up you go the more it costs if things go wrong but the faster you're back online or in the higher options, not offline as it was pre-emptive, it's that simple.

When volatility spiked we just chose a faster instance, took <1m, and can downgrade or switch it off over the weekend via automated restarts. There will be nothing wrong with the ones above, but they are the start, as your knowledge and requirements increase so will your need to move quicker.

We just went with the end result first rather than relearn each time moving to a new instance or environment. If you're not confident about your strategy then probably best to go with the cheapest that provides the most options medium term while you go through the process.

 

Thanks for the reply

My system is not very high frequency, so I am not too concerned about latency. Honestly the prices vary a little between the ones you mentioned amazon aws, softlayer, and mytradehost. But all of them are under $100 for my needs. And just with my short email communication with mytradehost, they seem to have very good customer service. I don't mind paying a small premium for better service, they also offer month to month service so it can evolve with my system like you said.

 

I use Commercial Network Services for my VPS.

 

If your broker is in Chicago then look at www.chicagovps.net they have a cloud vps from $1 a month or windows vps from $4.50

 

I also use them, excellent service.

 

IT looks like decent VPS provider, anyway if they are number 2 for your query "vps trading server" it really does mean something more for anything else being done. How do you believe it will work out there ? You do not have do or die dilema for using them