Various news and updates

Updated on a random time basis!

Super storm Sandy (update)

Very very bad storms on the East Coast, but we do not expect any downtime on our servers. Both data centers, in Chicago and in New-Jersey, have fully redundant power and cooling, huge redundant generator, ready for the worst. update: the fuel generator did the job in...

traderwerks interview

I made an interview for Greg, who was one of our first customers (late 2010 ?), from traderwerks and candlewerks, which can be read here. Both Greg's sites are good to know, a lot of interesting information to grab, or to give (on candlewerks ). I will also recommend...

Enhance RDP security

A good tool, easy to understand, quickly installed, simple but efficient: ts_block. This will block the IP addresses trying to connect with a wrong user name, or a wrong password.  

GoDaddy outage

VPS were unreachable today, with they FQDN, because of GoDaddy major outage. No a lot to do on our side, the emails were also very slow, from 2 to 4 hours late! Some details here (GoDaddy manage 53 millions domain names). This kind of problem was not expected, GoDaddy...

VPS in New-Jersey: in production

After some long and heavy tests, and with the help of some nice beta testers, we are ready and confident with this new location. Our first "real" customers are on this location for a week now, and all looks fine. The latency to Interactive Brokers market gateways is...

VPS in New-Jersey ?

We are now testing a data centre in NJ, near the NYSE data centre in Mahwah. The first beta VPS for our existing clients will be given this week, as our own tests were quite good. Our VPS in NJ are below 2 ms from Interactive Brokers and TradeStation data servers,...