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Running the bot on a VPS instead of your home PC has three concrete advantages. First: 24/7 uptime — your laptop closes at midnight, the markets don't. Second: low-latency execution — a Hetzner box in Frankfurt is ~12ms from Polymarket's CLOB API; your home connection is 40-80ms. That gap is meaningful for sub-second order fills.
Third: clean environment isolation. No accidental kills from Windows updates, no battery drain, no daemon conflicts.
Recommended minimum specs: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD. A $4-8/month Hetzner CPX11 or DigitalOcean s-2vcpu-2gb covers it comfortably. The setup script handles Python deps, systemd unit and log rotation — under 5 minutes from spin-up to first trade.
