Is someone here interested by sharing the cost of a very powerful server located in a Chicago (few milliseconds from ZenFire/Rithmic) ?
The server can be split in 7 or 8 Windows powerful virtual machines: Xeon X3470, 1Gb of memory each, 60 Gb of disks, 100mb/s, Windows 2008 R2 (let's say it the server version of Windows Seven).
This kind of machine is interesting if you want to test automated trading bots, get bid/ask data for you favorite cumulative delta tools, backtest with a very powerful machine, etc, etc.
I have the opportunity to get such physical for a very low monthly cost.
I mean very low.
But as it's never too cheap when it comes from my wallet :sarcastic:, I'll like to share the costs.
So here is the idea:
- I'm renting the server
- I install an hypervisor on it, to manage the Windows machines (VMWare ESX or XenServer, both are free for non-commercial use, and I know these two products)
- I'm also creating the Windows 2008 virtual machines, which will be used by the end user (using evaluation license of Windows 2008, available for 180 days)
- each Windows could already have a fresh installation of NinjaTrader 7, MultiCharts and IB TWS for example, so the user will just have to enter its license and configure it's data feed
- we share the costs of the platform.
I'll explain the details later, if I can found few guys interested in the idea (no more than 7 people per server, and I can have two servers maximum), and if I can find them quickly.