3-12-14 Swinging in for a quick update

Getting the infrastructure set up has turned out to be a much larger task than I expected.  Almost the entire last week has been spent testing configurations, running load tests, reconfiguring, testing again, etc.
I'm happy to say that I have finally found the mix of performance, redundancy and cost needed to efficiently and effectively run the platform.  I would even venture to say that I've spent more in server infrastructure so far in development than most (if not all) bots spend in a year.  I'm not quite sure anyone really understands the amount of power it takes to run such a large trading platform (currently 8 servers in total to get through development and alpha testing, and even more when it comes to full release).  I'm beginning to see why something of this scale has not been done yet!

With all that said, things are still moving forward, albeit a bit slower than I originally expected.  Due to costs, RollerBot will launch supporting 10 exchanges.  As a userbase builds, I'll be able to afford more infrastructure to enable support for even more exchanges (in blocks of 10, to keep costs reasonable).

I'll be able to get back into the programming that needs done over the next couple of days now that the final layout for the infrastructure is now set!