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  • #3,141
  • Sep 21, 2011 9:31pm Sep 21, 2011 9:31pm
Quoting coral
Yes I have three Go platforms running on 2 separate Mammoth VPSs. My ping time to Go/Sydney is 1ms.
Price did freeze quite a few times during the FOMC spikes but did not disconnect. Execution times are good, but that doesn't work if the price doesn't move and then gaps to your stop and you've missed your target, or your trailing adjustments don't work due to the price not moving. I lost a lot of money today due to this problem.

I have platforms open at home as well and compared them to a live Pepperstone platform. Pepperstone didn't freeze...
Thanks Coral, I guess that rules out the VPS being the issue.
  • #3,142
  • Sep 21, 2011 9:48pm Sep 21, 2011 9:48pm
Apologies. Avg ping to Go/Sydney is 7 ms. To Pepperstone Sydney is 1ms.
  • #3,143
  • Sep 21, 2011 9:53pm Sep 21, 2011 9:53pm
Quoting JonnoB
Is anyone else using Mammoth VPS? If so did you notice any disconnects during the FOMC statement?
This question makes it sound like you trade direct from the VPS, you don't do you?

Your mPanel at Mammoth website will show performance statistics, no report of downtime or problems with mine.
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  • #3,144
  • Edited 10:38pm Sep 21, 2011 10:12pm | Edited 10:38pm
Quoting Callisto
This question makes it sound like you trade direct from the VPS, you don't do you?

Your mPanel at Mammoth website will show performance statistics, no report of downtime or problems with mine.
I don't trade manually from the VPS. Normally it is a set and forget operation. I wanted to check today how things were going during a high impact event, so logged in. I certainly had the price freeze, but also noticed a couple of 'login' entries in the journal.

The mPanel performance stats do not show anything obvious. There is a very small network spike around that time though.

Perhaps logging in to the VPS caused the issue?

I'm not blaming Go at all, I just want to understand why I made some donations today and how minimise doing it again. Doesn't look like there is an easy fix. I don't want to have to monitor network traffic on a limited resourced machine.
  • #3,145
  • Sep 21, 2011 11:53pm Sep 21, 2011 11:53pm
You made donations? You're not running those darn robot EA's are you?

Will send you a PM to get you on the right path...
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  • #3,146
  • Edited 1:08am Sep 22, 2011 12:14am | Edited 1:08am
Hi Guys,

I am not looking to point fingers, so just asking the question based on a number of emails we have received. Are many of you using Mammoth VPS? We have had a few clients reporting some disconnections at around 4:00am Australian time, and all of them are using Mammoth.

It may be coincidence, but if not I would want to contact them to find out if they had any known issues around that time. It could be that if they have lots of Forex traders using them, a spike in the data caused by increased market volatility would cause problems for their clients.

I will see what I can find out for you all.

Thanks,
Chris
  • #3,147
  • Sep 22, 2011 1:28am Sep 22, 2011 1:28am
I had the outage at around 4.20 for memory chris not long after the fomc and so did a few mates. It was prob 3-4 min long.
  • #3,148
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:08am Sep 22, 2011 2:08am
Hi Chris and all,

Well, it seems things are back to how they were. Just had 3 disconnections/reconnections in the space of 2 mins. 5 minutes after London open.

:/

When is that extra server getting installed?
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  • #3,149
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:17am Sep 22, 2011 2:17am
Quoting GoMarkets
Hi Guys,

I have checked through everything and can see that last night there was no outage, no firewall issues or lost packets of data, and we were well under bandwidth and server memory. The only thing I can't vouch for is whether the feed stuck for a few seconds - they aren't measurable at our end and given the error earlier in the day from their end it could be possible that they had more issues later on.

I understand that not everyone is going to have perfect connection and execution at all times, and perhaps part of that is because of...
Hi Chris,

We complained month's ago before you knowledge that there WAS a problem. Then you tried to fix the issues and now you get back saying that we are exagerating a bit?

So you checked and as usual you didn't find any. DID you found ever an issue in last ECB meetings/ NFP/ FOMC? As I can back check NOTHING! Only firewall got spotted when it turned rogue and kicked everybody out.

You should monitor big events by a human not just logs. This issue is related to events where price move too fast and your server then crawl to send all the ticks to customers! Doesn't mean that CPU will be at 100% or RAM too. Web server too have such issue when they can process too many request same time. This is the main issue and you should watch that unstead of sleeping .

Despite that think that Go markets server moving to US or Europe will get better service for customers outside of australia IF you want still want to graw that business.

With all respect hope we find a solution fast not in month's.

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  • #3,150
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:30am Sep 22, 2011 2:30am
maybe all the angry customers have come back again... and have toppled the performance for everyone.

it certainly was better monday and has gone downhill since.
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  • #3,151
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:37am Sep 22, 2011 2:37am
Yes well after Chris's last post, it would be helpful if peeps could mention if they are using a VPS and if so which one.
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  • #3,152
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:45am Sep 22, 2011 2:45am
Quoting aud
Yes well after Chris's last post, it would be helpful if peeps could mention if they are using a VPS and if so which one.
NEVER EVER USED a VPS! I might use for testing servers located in europe but not for trading!

Used testing on my PC's Many location, many countries! ON DSL & using 3G+!

Issues yesterday were not noticed on server but my desktop!

Why Go markets freeze in big events almost EVERY TIME while other brokers I have on Same PC survive the load??

This is a go markets issue never faced it before with other brokers so often.

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  • #3,153
  • Sep 22, 2011 2:53am Sep 22, 2011 2:53am
Go Markets should seriously consider to have more local servers serving different continents. PepperStone, Vantage and AxiTrader each has different local servers in other countries to better serve their clients.
  • #3,154
  • Sep 22, 2011 3:15am Sep 22, 2011 3:15am
Quoting GoMarkets
The only thing I can't vouch for is whether the feed stuck for a few seconds - they aren't measurable at our end..
well, they are extremely measurable at my end. They seem not only measurable, but definately visible - see my charts below.

The two blackouts right after London open were extra tasty ones; it was a >2 minute outage followed by a 1min one. They were even followed by disconnects - tis not always the case; mostly the feed will just stuck and i have to watch some other broker's demo to look how my trade's doing until your server gets merciful again and sends my MT4 client the missing data so that it looks like nothing happened.

The issue seems to be related to sudden increases in volatility and session starts. I can't tell it for sure (don't have extensive MT4 server knowledge) but i think the problem is not in the client/server layer.. it seems to be further inside.

I will screenshot all visible outages and post them here. Chris, please don't ever try to blame it on any hw/sw/connection issue on my side - it simply isn't true.
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  • #3,155
  • Sep 22, 2011 3:16am Sep 22, 2011 3:16am
I'm not using a VPS and my GoMarkets live platform is frozen right now even as the MBT one (demo) is working fine.
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  • #3,156
  • Sep 22, 2011 3:47am Sep 22, 2011 3:47am
I run two live accounts with Go. They both reside on one Crucial Paradigm VPS. Last night at 4:24/4:25am EST one suffered two disconnects while the other traded like clock work. Each account only had one chart open with one simple EA running. No fancy graphics, no other software running - ie. the VPS is not being pushed hard at all.

Given that all of the equipment in this case is in common, but one account works while the other doesn't, I can understand how people have arrived at the conclusion that the Go Markets server is doing some load shedding (dropping clients) when the going gets tough (incoming ticks-wise).

The account that behaved perfectly was trading much larger lot sizes, I wonder if it was a coincidence or whether the multitude of smaller accounts get the chop before the bigger ones?
  • #3,157
  • Sep 22, 2011 3:59am Sep 22, 2011 3:59am
Quoting GoMarkets
To keep you all in the loop, we are continuing to evaluate many aspects of our setup, relating primarily to liquidity providers and server locations. We are now in discussions with several different LPs who are competing for the right to win our business, which can only be good for all of our clients. We are committed to finding the right LP which will allow us to change from being a normal STP provider to being a genuine ECN and give the best possible trading conditions to everyone, including the removal of the minimum stop/limit distance. This...
I'll wait until this does come true.

Good luck guys.
  • #3,158
  • Sep 22, 2011 4:15am Sep 22, 2011 4:15am
Again GO market go nuts EURUSD right now when we tested 1.35 chart freezing again!!!



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  • #3,159
  • Sep 22, 2011 4:20am Sep 22, 2011 4:20am
i had record 5 pip slippage
Mohan
  • #3,160
  • Sep 22, 2011 4:25am Sep 22, 2011 4:25am
again charts freezing!!!! no more following price action over go market. Second charts not freezing. This is really CRAP CRAP.

Top task this week is alternative broker will not play mouse & cat over this or wait month's until Go markets gets back to biz!



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