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Category: Latency & Networking

Latency is one of the most misunderstood topics in trading infrastructure, and these guides cut through the marketing. They explain what low latency actually means for order execution, why a ping figure isn’t the same as your real fill time, how jitter and your broker’s route matter as much as the average, and when proximity to an exchange genuinely helps. You’ll also find explainers on slippage, network speed versus latency, and how server location affects execution.
Rather than trust an advertised number, you can measure the real path from a VPS to your own broker with our latency checker, and read more about our network in the infrastructure overview. The articles here help you interpret what those numbers mean.

Low-Latency VPS for High-Frequency Trading: The Honest Reality (2026)

Latency rings around a matching engine — under 1 ms in the same data center, ~1 ms in the same metro, 13–40 ms across the country, 60–200 ms transatlantic or from home.

Let’s answer the real question before anyone sells you anything: can you do high-frequency trading on a VPS? Honestly, no. Real HFT runs on servers colocated inside the exchange, on FPGA hardware, at nanosecond latencies costing tens of thousands a month — a retail VPS is roughly 50,000 to 500,000 times slower. But “high-frequency” gets used loosely, and if what you run is fast, scalping, or high-turnover strategies, a low-latency VPS is exactly right. Here’s the honest line between the two.