How to avoid issues running the bot on VPS
In this article I’ll explain common issues that you may face running the bot on VPS. 1. VPS physical location. It is very important where your VPS server is physically located because some countries (and thus their servers) are banned on Betfair (e.g. Spain, France, Germany). So make sure the country where server is located is allowed on Betfair. You should be able to login to your Betfair account in a browser from the VPS. The best country to have VPS is UK because your server will be as close as possible to Betfair servers, therefore delays in reading market prices and placing your...
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What is VPS? VPS states for Virtual Personal Server. It is just like a usual computer, but located somewhere in Internet. You can connect to it via a special computer programs called Remote Desktop. It is available by default in Windows 7, but you can get similar programs for almost any device, e.g. Mac, iPad or Android smartphone. VPS just like any other computer has certain amount of memory (RAM) and disk space. On VPS you can do just the same things like on your own computer – install and run programs, store files, surf Internet, etc. It is called “virtual” personal...
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