I Run My Trading Bot on a $12 VPS: What Actually Matters for Latency, Uptime, and Your Broker’s Datacenter
I’ve been running my main trading bot on an InterServer VPS out of their Secaucus, NJ facility since March 2023. My measured round-trip latency to my broker’s NY4 datacenter is 4.2ms average (measured with `hping3` over 10,000 packets during market hours, 9:30-16:00 ET), and my bill is $12.00/month as of January 2025 — that’s the…