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Date/Time: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:04:40 +0000
[User Discussion] - Recommendations for hosting solution near Chicago?
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| curious16 - Posts: 41 |
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I am curious to hear from other users and from SC staff about recommendations of quality providers to get either a VDS or a bare-metal server with reasonably fast ping to CME Aurora. Users outside the US who look to trade automated benefit from having a hosted solution near Chicago. Hosting options that are co-located in the Aurora data center of course are sold for steep price premiums, but there are also a number of other Chicago-based providers. If you have round-trip times of multiple 100 msecs, you do not necessarily obsess about the fastest possible ping, but getting something like 5-15 msec ping makes a substantial difference. Regarding hardware configuration, I saw that SC discourages using VPS which makes sense due to the shared resources potentially causing unpredictable delays. There is a middle ground, usually called VDS, where you share a physical server but get dedicated cores, memory and SSD storage. It would be helpful to hear from other users what experiences they made with VDS providers. Alternatively, I would also consider bare metal options. I'd frankly rather have a good bare metal box with a provider that has high-quality operations (redundant power, redundant communication lines etc) but a ping of 10-15 msecs than an option that looks great on paper with sub-msec ping but the operations of the hosting provider are unreliable and you are let down when you need it most. In terms of OS, my preference would be to have Linux (e.g. Proxmox) and install a VM with Windows on top. I find that hosting providers often charge you a ridiculous amount extra for having the annoying Windows installed on the bare metal level. I understand that using Linux/Wine and bypassing Windows entirely is also an option worth considering. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-03-23 16:00:54
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