When I used to auto trade I had a bare bones installation on a dedicated mini brick PC, with 2 ssd’s mirrored, only installed the OS, zero other software, disabled hibernation and anything that would put things into low power mode etc, removed everything from startup and disabled automatic software updates for windows (still patched, just did it manually once a month). Had wifi and cat5 ethernet, so if the ethernet failed it would fall back to wifi.
Never optimized on it, used another machine for that as had charts on a shared NAS drive etc
I’d monitor it by occasionaly logging in via remote desktop.
Been tempted to set it up again, but this time I’d probably go the virtual machine hyervisor route.
Hmm had not actually thought of that 🙂 was more intially thinking run in a local hyper-v, that being said I am super tempted to try it in a Azure hosted VM as I have the subscriptions to Azure. I am super curios about how well optimization would perform on cloud based vm’s 🙂
