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

InfrastructureVerdictWhy
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.

Related industries

Trading Platforms hosting — FAQs

What server specification do Trading Platforms usually need?
It depends on volume more than on the industry. A medium-sized operation working from about 50,000 visits a month lands around 4 cores, 48 GB of memory and 200 GB of storage.
How were these figures worked out?
From an assumed traffic level, the number of requests each page makes, and how much data the application keeps warm — then rounded up to a build we actually sell. They are assumptions stated out loud rather than measurements of your business.
Can we change size later?
Yes. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address.