Seriously? Get over it.
ANY serious provider will charge per resource usage, OR you will not have the resources when needed.
I also pay per GB for my systems. So what
It is not like I run an open FTP Server.
* You wont need more than 30gb for trading, unless you stay in all the time and do a lot (then maybe 60), or dual use it as torrent site or something. Trading traffic is not that high end.
* You should be a lot more concerned about RAM and CPU ressources really available.
The last one is the item that while I do run basically 100% of my infrastructure for my company operations and trading virtual (naturally NOT virtual are workstations, and - also not virtual are actually some core systems that run on the OS that ALSO runs the hyper visor), I do so on my own hardware. I had too many incidents where "slow" basically was "oversold", both at my normal time as customer, but also in my time at MS SQ LServer support where customers came with "slow" servers and at the end they had gotten some virtual system that was physically just overloaded to keep prices down.
Making sure you know that the RAM and CPU usage of the physical system are "in bounds" is paramount. If you run trading systems and have 16 customers on one machine (assuming a dual quad core server, 64 gb ram, that would mean 4gb per server)..... the CPU's may still be at maximum when just a couple of the mhave a tendency to make system optimization. And you will wonder why your system is slow, though CPU is low (YOUR cpu, not the hardware one)...
ANY serious provider will charge per resource usage, OR you will not have the resources when needed.
I also pay per GB for my systems. So what
It is not like I run an open FTP Server.* You wont need more than 30gb for trading, unless you stay in all the time and do a lot (then maybe 60), or dual use it as torrent site or something. Trading traffic is not that high end.
* You should be a lot more concerned about RAM and CPU ressources really available.
The last one is the item that while I do run basically 100% of my infrastructure for my company operations and trading virtual (naturally NOT virtual are workstations, and - also not virtual are actually some core systems that run on the OS that ALSO runs the hyper visor), I do so on my own hardware. I had too many incidents where "slow" basically was "oversold", both at my normal time as customer, but also in my time at MS SQ LServer support where customers came with "slow" servers and at the end they had gotten some virtual system that was physically just overloaded to keep prices down.
Making sure you know that the RAM and CPU usage of the physical system are "in bounds" is paramount. If you run trading systems and have 16 customers on one machine (assuming a dual quad core server, 64 gb ram, that would mean 4gb per server)..... the CPU's may still be at maximum when just a couple of the mhave a tendency to make system optimization. And you will wonder why your system is slow, though CPU is low (YOUR cpu, not the hardware one)...