Clipper 8
$ 49 /month
- vCPU
- 4 × dedicated
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 200 GB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Transfer
- 20 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Solution
VPS for crypto trading bots and market makers
Clipper 8 · $49/moClipper 16 · $92/mo
Short answer
Crypto exchanges concentrate their matching engines in AWS Tokyo (Binance), AWS Ashburn (Coinbase) and a handful of European regions. A trading bot wants two dedicated high-frequency cores, 4–8 GB of RAM, and placement in the same metro as the exchange. Bandwidth is trivial; websocket jitter is not, which is why dedicated cores beat larger shared instances.
What you need
| Resource | What you actually need |
|---|---|
| CPU | 2–4 dedicated high-frequency cores |
| RAM | 4 GB for one strategy, 8–16 GB for a multi-pair market maker |
| Disk | NVMe Gen4 — orderbook snapshots are write-heavy |
| Network | Consistent jitter matters more than raw throughput |
Recommended plans
Clipper 16
$ 92 /month
- vCPU
- 8 × dedicated
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 400 GB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Transfer
- 30 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Recommended locations
Location is usually the decision that matters most for this workload — either because latency dominates, or because jurisdiction does.
Why OnionVPS for this
- Tokyo for Binance, Ashburn for Coinbase and Kraken US, Frankfurt for European venues.
- Dedicated cores eliminate the steal time that turns a 2 ms websocket handler into a 40 ms one.
- Crypto-only billing keeps the infrastructure and the strategy on the same rails.
- API-driven provisioning and a Terraform provider, so a strategy can spin up its own capacity.
How to set it up
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Identify your venue's region
Binance and Bybit sit in Tokyo, Coinbase and Kraken in US East, Bitstamp and Bitfinex in Europe.
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Deploy a Clipper instance in that metro
Four dedicated cores is enough for most single-venue strategies.
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Pin the process and disable CPU frequency scaling
taskset plus the performance governor removes a surprising amount of jitter.
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Run the bot under a supervisor
systemd with Restart=always, plus a dead-man alert if no order is placed within N minutes.
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Keep keys off the box where possible
Use IP-whitelisted, withdrawal-disabled API keys so a compromised instance cannot drain the account.
Frequently asked questions
Where should a crypto trading bot be hosted?
In the same metro as the exchange's matching engine. Tokyo for Binance, US East for Coinbase and Kraken, Frankfurt or London for European venues. Distance is latency, and latency is slippage.
Is a VPS fast enough for arbitrage?
For cross-exchange and funding-rate arbitrage, yes. For sub-millisecond latency arbitrage you need colocation, not a VPS — and that is true of every provider.
Do you allow bots and automated trading?
Yes, without restriction. Automated trading is a normal workload here, not an exception that needs approval.