Run bot in Ashburn Center

[benitoyrachele]

Hi there,

For some time I have been using a high frequency trading bot. It opens a websocket with a server that uses Ashburn Cloudflare gateway to process requests, so I was thinking to move this bot as close as possible to this gateway, preferably Cloudflare Ashburn itself.

I would need to open a websocket connection which would remain open 24/7 and do public and private requests to their API when my bot trades. Latency is critical, so is there any chance I can do this task as close as possible to the Cloudflare Ashburn gateway?

Thanks everyone!

[Judge]

Currently, Websockets in Workers is in a bit of limbo -

Websocket support

Hi @jdavis, There are two tricky questions to answer with WebSocket support: What’s the API? Service Workers in the browser today actually can’t intercept WebSockets, and so there’s no standard API defined for doing so. We’ll need to make up something new, hopefully with some chance that it will be accepted into the standard later. How should WebSockets affect the per-request CPU time limit? Is a whole WebSocket just one request, with the same CPU limit as any other? Or do we treat it as …

State of WebSockets in Workers

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[cs-cf]

Cloudflare’s peering information si available here: PeeringDB You could speak to hosting providers about what services they offer in the datacenters you are interested in.