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@Bondi9999, did you take a look at this thread ?
I still have enough slots, if you want to test on a dual-Xeon 1Gb/50Gb 2008R2, during 2 or 3 weeks, that could give you an idea on "how big" your VPS needs to be.
I didn't tried Investor/RT, but it looks like a good product, well coded, so it might not used too much memory, so 1Gb might be enough to run all three (IRT, NT, MC).
You won't find a lot of Windows 7 VPS's, but mainly Windows Server versions.
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Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Researching VPS for running strategies with NinjaTrader 7. I am thinking at least 1G RAM, running 2 strategies. Unsure on bandwidth. In anyhow easy enough to try it out unless something knows how to quantify the bandwidth.
After researching I think EC2 and Giganet are the most cost effective for me (running weekdays 24 hours). It adds up to about $100 a month for the configuration.
With EC2, you will have some very "random" performances.
AFAIK, EC2 is based on old hardware, and it's now quite slow.
And you should avoid all "cloud" solutions, unless your bot is working on very large time frames: these solutions are not made for real time stuff, and not very reliable (well, the VPS I've tested myself).
1G is enough for 2 strategies.
For network aspects, on the VPS used for the battle of the bots, 6 to 8 bots running, two Zen-Fire connections, a dozen of instruments, it has sent 1.5Gb and has received 3.35Gb in 41 days (so 110mb/days in network I/O).
For security reasons (and because some of my VPS users are paranoid ), I will avoid the company name.
It's a big company, multiple data centers in US cities, and a 24/24 support (which works fine).
To be clear, I'm not renting a VPS to this company, but two big physical servers. I have installed an hypervisor, had build few VPS for my own use and for some Elite members which where interested in the idea, and manage the physical servers myself.
The costs are, approximately, shared between the users, so it costs me less than a commercial VPS, for a much better solution: in many cases, the VPS resources (CPU/RAM/IO) are oversold, so you can have good performance one day, and terrible ones two days later. And you can't know the truth (the oversold ratio, the performances of the physical machines, ...).
In my case, I'm sure to have good performance: the resources are not oversold, the other VPS users are using their VPS for the same thing as me (I presume), so no crazy stuff like download torrent or big backtests, and I'm watching the cpu load very carefully (average load is 7% for 6 VPS).
Does anyone know if N7 (latest release )works ok on windows server environments considering you can only run the latest N7 on Windows 7 if SP1 is installed.
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