Amazon VPS Services

Hi,

anybody using AWS for their trading?

It's free for a year, has a datacenter in London.
And best: you are in control and can restart the instance, if the rdp connection doesn't work anymore (as I had with 4xsolutions).

I wonder, why it's not on the list of VPS.

Mic

Hello, what’s the basic usefulness of AWS, I am interested to know more.

MicF posted:
Hi,

anybody using AWS for their trading?

It's free for a year, has a datacenter in London.
And best: you are in control and can restart the instance, if the rdp connection doesn't work anymore (as I had with 4xsolutions).

I wonder, why it's not on the list of VPS.

Mic

Hi, I use AWS EC2 and have had no problems. I run 2 instances of MT4 with 15 charts. It's a great basic VPS for a couple of MT4's, if you are intending to use a lot of platforms running a lot of EA's then it will struggle.

AniLorak posted:
Hello, what’s the basic usefulness of AWS, I am interested to know more.

AWS EC2 is a service from Amazon for virtual servers.
There are a bunch of low size servers free for 12 month.

It's not a dedicated trading platform, but why should it be?

@jimcameron
Thanks for your impression, which I'd second.
That's why I was wondering why it's not on the list.

Azure from Microsoft same issue.

Mic

MicF posted:

AniLorak posted:
Hello, what’s the basic usefulness of AWS, I am interested to know more.

AWS EC2 is a service from Amazon for virtual servers.
There are a bunch of low size servers free for 12 month.

It's not a dedicated trading platform, but why should it be?

@jimcameron
Thanks for your impression, which I'd second.
That's why I was wondering why it's not on the list.

Azure from Microsoft same issue.

Mic

@MicF
I am using it for years. Even when you switch to paid mode after first year it is cheap and reliable.
IMHO it is much better than metaquotes VPS built in mt4 in all terms.

Tried it. Closed it. Incredibly slow. Ages to log in via RDC. Just hangs. Free. Get what you pay for.

WhyLose posted:
Tried it. Closed it. Incredibly slow. Ages to log in via RDC. Just hangs. Free. Get what you pay for.

Looks like an extensive test.

togr posted:
@MicF
I am using it for years. Even when you switch to paid mode after first year it is cheap and reliable.
IMHO it is much better than metaquotes VPS built in mt4 in all terms.

In which setup do you use it 2 cores 2GB or just the plain 1 core 1GB?

nothing good comes free guys why don't you use fxvm i recommend there services to any fx trader

Wamski posted:
nothing good comes free guys why don't you use fxvm i recommend there services to any fx trader

Hi @Wamski I don't use fxvm because AWS works for me and it's free so I save $19 every month. Maybe other traders would find it useful to have a free VPS, and they can decide if it is good enough.

MicF posted:

togr posted:
@MicF
I am using it for years. Even when you switch to paid mode after first year it is cheap and reliable.
IMHO it is much better than metaquotes VPS built in mt4 in all terms.

In which setup do you use it 2 cores 2GB or just the plain 1 core 1GB?

the plain one running just 2 mt4

Wamski posted:
nothing good comes free guys why don't you use fxvm i recommend there services to any fx trader

Even though there is nothing like free lunch the EC2 is free and good.

Wamski posted:
nothing good comes free guys why don't you use fxvm i recommend there services to any fx trader

FXVM is very overpriced
1. There is nothing like forex VPS. Normal VPS with Windows is fine. Everyone should be capable to install mt4.
2. $274 per month for weak dedicated server? I can get much more powerful dedicated server for 60 bucks.

... and honestly, Amazon is one of the largest datacenter operator with multiple reduncy all over the worlds.
Big companies are hosting there, so why shouldn't we.

The smaller ones are more expensive, because they can't scale there costs.
I doubt they are better.

ok let me test this VPS and see how good it is, can anyone give me a clue how how to subscribe for it?😈

Wamski posted:
ok let me test this VPS and see how good it is, can anyone give me a clue how how to subscribe for it?😈

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

@Wamski

It's a lot to find there, from artificial intelligence to voice services.
Head for EC2 and launch a windows vps, that has the 'free tier eligible' tag.

I recommend to select a datacenter near your broker.

thinks alot guys i owe you one

@jimcameron
@MicF

i tried using the free VPS but it didnt work, too bad.