| Latency to your broker |
High & variable — home ISP routing |
Random data center, often the wrong metro |
1–10 ms typical, colocated beside your broker’s AWS region |
| CPU performance |
Whatever your machine has |
Low-clock shared vCPU |
Ryzen 9 9950X, dedicated cores |
| Uptime for copiers & bots |
Drops on power, Wi-Fi or PC sleep |
Shared host, noisy-neighbour slowdowns |
99.999% uptime target, redundant power & network |
| Always-on execution |
Off when the PC sleeps or updates |
Usually on, but not trading-tuned |
24/7 — copiers & web session auto-restart after reboot |
| Setup & control |
Full control, fully manual |
Full control, generic image |
Full Windows desktop + Admin — run the web terminal, copiers & API |
| Real monthly cost |
“Free” — but power, downtime & missed fills add up |
Cheap, but mismatched to your broker |
From $39/mo, built for copiers, bots & funded accounts |