Hi I am using a cloud server to execute my trades and it seems that there has been some disconnection lately. Normally my IB TWS will disconnects and connects again when connection is back ON. However I suspect when the disconnection happens too many times TWS does not connect again and freezes. Is there any software that could be installed onto the server and monitors the server uptime?
What vps are you using? There are vps and servers very close to the exchange in Chicago and New Jersey for traders. email www.speedytradingservers.com They claim there servers have been up for 18 months non-stop.
This is interesting. Most of the time network uptime is monitored from the outside world to see if your server is available, but you want to monitor it from the inside. For external availability, something like Pingdom is good. For monitoring from inside the server, New Relic's server monitoring will alert you when your server hasn't been reporting for 5 minutes. If you want something less than 5 minutes, I'm sure Nagios, the industry standard server monitoring tool, will do it. Good luck setting it up though. =)