What system are you running your bots from?

[dathugyankee]

I know some people out there run their bots from 12-24hours / 7 days a week. I was planning on powering up my old laptop and leaving it running all day, charger plugged in. Just wanted to know what type of computer/system y'all use ?

 

[fheaky]

Most people who leave their bots running 24/7 use a VPS. Me included.

 

[dathugyankee]

Any provider in particular you recommend?

 

[Paper-Boy]

I use windows vps - windows 2008.

Any provider in particular you recommend?

Check out poweruphosting. The owner is a stand up guy.

 

[ThreadKiller]

In my opinion, most windows VPS's cost too much. The best bang for the buck, if your bots are making you money, is to get a Linux server somewhere cheap. Then if your bots run in Windows, you install a pirated version in Virtualbox or Vmware. Then you use RDP or Nomachine to log in to your box (Teamviewer is great, but expires and really isn't cracked easily).

Doing it this way means that you can get a fully featured real server, with a great CPU, huge hard-drives and lots of RAM, for about 2x the price of a basic VPS.

 

[JasonS]

Any provider in particular you recommend?

You can try "imsnake vps" or "darkvps".

 

[dathugyankee]

In my opinion, most windows VPS's cost too much. The best bang for the buck, if your bots are making you money, is to get a Linux server somewhere cheap. Then if your bots run in Windows, you install a pirated version in Virtualbox or Vmware. Then you use RDP or Nomachine to log in to your box (Teamviewer is great, but expires and really isn't cracked easily).

Doing it this way means that you can get a fully featured real server, with a great CPU, huge hard-drives and lots of RAM, for about 2x the price of a basic VPS.

great thanks for the advice, I will look into this !