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Pretty sure NASDAQ rents servers directly on site for serious dough, so distance is not that much of an issue.
by TrainedMonkey 12y ago
Pretty sure NASDAQ rents servers directly on site for serious dough, so distance is not that much of an issue.
- kasey_junk 12y agoYes and No. Nearly every electronic exchange now offers co-location services (including NASDAQ). The "serious dough" part is a little harder to quantify. I've not looked into NASDAQ specifically but server colocation is usually on the order of a couple of thousand dollars a month. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the real costs of a professional trading outfit (namely employees and margin/risk costs). Anecdotally, it's also almost exactly what I paid for a tier 1 co-located server at my first job in a startup during the first dotcom boom.