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I don't see why you couldn't lease or rent a windows server from the many on line providers and do it yourself...I would try to price a dedicated server (I am leasing a unix for about $120 a month and have quite a few domains on it) check the bandwidth allowed, and their rules and regulations but it should be doable. You can get them by the month. I have never messed with a windows server but I am sure you would have to go that way to run the trading platform.. as I doubt they have a unix version. You might also check with your local isp, mine here has regular windows machines set up as servers (I have one here at home running apache and a mail server) and sometimes they will allow you to plug your own computer into their system or rent a computer from them . At least you would have a pretty sure line and power etc. I am relatively sure they would not want you on a "shared" computer. too much bandwidth, I would imagine. I haven't checked how much the program uses but it sure seems to light up my firewall. You can expect to pay anywhere from $100 a month to $600 a month.. depending on the company.
Why not just run the platform on, say a laptop that is plugged in.. any power outage and the laptop will continue to run what, two hours or so .. by that time surely the power will be back on... also I used to run dsl and cable in my home, and had two servers running on them, I very seldom lost either connection... I have been running dsl here for two years and have only been down about two hours total time. . so the modern dsl and cable are pretty dependable.