Trading & Financial Applications
Server infrastructure for Trading Platforms
Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Trading Platforms actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.
Recommended builds by size
Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.
Small
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.
Medium
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.
Large
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.
Which tiers suit Trading Platforms
| Infrastructure | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server | Not this one | Persistent connections and custom ports are exactly what a shared platform does not permit. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Enough for a small server or a test instance, though a noisy neighbour shows up immediately as jitter. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned cores are what keep tick rate and call quality steady; on a contended instance they are not. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Single-tenant hardware removes the last source of variance, which is what these workloads are judged on. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For operators running many instances at once on hardware they control. |
Trading Platforms workloads you can host
Judged on consistency rather than throughput: a predictable few milliseconds beats a fast average with a slow tail.
- Order entry & routing
- Live market data
- Position & risk engine
- Charting
- Trade reporting
Trading Platforms hosting by city
Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.
- New York
- Toronto
- Los Angeles
- Montréal
- Chicago
- Vancouver
- Calgary
- Houston
- Edmonton
- Phoenix
- Ottawa
- Philadelphia
- San Antonio
- Winnipeg
- Québec City
- San Diego
- Dallas
- Hamilton
- Austin
- Kitchener
- Halifax
- San Jose
- Jacksonville
- Victoria
- Saskatoon
- Seattle
- Denver
- Regina
- Boston
- Mississauga
- Atlanta
- Brampton
- Miami
- San Francisco
- ‘Ewa Beach
- ‘Ewa Gentry
- Abbey Wood
- Abbotsford
- Aberdare
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberystwyth
- Abilene
- Abingdon
- Abington
- Abington
- Abu Hayl
- Accrington
- Acocks Green
- Acton
- Acton
- Acworth
- Ada
- Adams Morgan
- Addison
- Addison
- Adelaide city centre
- Adelaide Hills