I am just wondering where you guys host your code and how you secure it against certain risks (network and electricity failure as well as theft). Do you just rent an VPS and let them take care of everything? If so can you give me a recommendation?
Currently I am setting up my trading environment and I am rather paranoid about using servers from external parties and giving my code into an environment I can not control 100%. As I also need a server for other private projects I decided to buy a small zotac bare bone pc which is running 24/7.
Private server at location A
DLL doing all the Logic
MT4 EA executing my trades
-----> Pings my Cellphone every 5 Minutes
Desktop PC at location B with backup code
I am located 200 km away with a secondary internet connection and a mirror of everything stored on the server so that I can take steps in case of a failure.
As the sum of my EA's tend to make a lot of trades which are scaling in and out all the time to distribute the risk a long downtime would hurt the equity curve by much.
Currently I am setting up my trading environment and I am rather paranoid about using servers from external parties and giving my code into an environment I can not control 100%. As I also need a server for other private projects I decided to buy a small zotac bare bone pc which is running 24/7.
Private server at location A
DLL doing all the Logic
MT4 EA executing my trades
-----> Pings my Cellphone every 5 Minutes
Desktop PC at location B with backup code
I am located 200 km away with a secondary internet connection and a mirror of everything stored on the server so that I can take steps in case of a failure.
As the sum of my EA's tend to make a lot of trades which are scaling in and out all the time to distribute the risk a long downtime would hurt the equity curve by much.
