Hosting the terminal on a Windows VPS for all-session uptime — what I run my own infrastructure on, what to pick, and how to set it up.
The terminal is built to run all session — recording your journal, watching your alerts, keeping the gamma book warm. If your trading machine sleeps, drops Wi-Fi, or doubles as the family computer, a hosted Windows machine gives you a desk that never closes: you connect over RDP from anywhere, and the terminal is exactly where you left it.
It also moves you closer to the data. The futures tape originates in Chicago; a machine in the same metro reads it with less of the public internet in between than your home connection ever will.
Sharpnel's own production infrastructure — the API, the data service, the gateways, the market-data ingest — runs on dedicated hardware from QuantVPS in Chicago. That is not a paid placement; it is where this business actually lives, and it has carried the whole stack through every session since the terminal went live. They specialise in trading workloads and their Windows machines come sized for exactly this kind of always-on use.
