Astralane: Achieving Ultra-Low-Latency Performance with Cherry Servers

Astralane is a high-performance, low-latency middleware provider powering distributed systems for HFTs, trading bots, trading terminals, and decentralized exchanges. They are building Iris, a transaction-sending engine engineered for p90 sub-slot reliability, a critical requirement for teams operating in latency-sensitive environments.

Astralane needed a global infrastructure footprint with uncompromising network performance. Cherry Servers became a partner in this expansion. We’ve asked Astralane's co-founder Sujith, who leads the technical and product development efforts, how they leveraged Cherry Servers’ bare metal solutions to deliver consistent speed and reliability.

The Challenge

For Astralane, latency is the product. Every micro-optimization matters, and infrastructure choices directly impact transaction landing rates, trading performance, and system resiliency. 

However, not all locations and providers can support the ultra-low-latency connectivity required for their Iris network, Jito endpoints, and customer infrastructure.

Astralane also preferred bare metal servers over shared cloud environments that introduced resource overhead, unpredictable performance, and unnecessary abstraction layers that worked against their latency goals. Bare metal, on the other hand, offered:

• Full hardware-level control and customization;

• Zero virtualization overhead;

• More cost-effective performance at scale;

• Predictable and stable network behavior.

Some providers still lacked the combination of low latency, reliability, and cost efficiency balance that Astralane needed for mission-critical workloads.

The Solution

Astralane deployed several high-performance workloads on Cherry Servers' bare metal servers, tightly aligned with their latency-first architecture:

• RPC Layer – powering fast, reliable access to blockchain data;

• Iris Transaction Sender for AMS (and FRA next) – achieving consistent p90 sub-slot reliability;

• Shreds Broadcaster – distributing data at line-rate speeds without interruption.

Cherry Servers’ bare metal infrastructure provided:

1. Dedicated resources; 

2. optimized custom hardware configurations; 

3. strategically located data centers that aligned perfectly with Astralane’s network path requirements.

With full control, transparent performance, and stable connectivity, Cherry Servers enabled Astralane to deliver the consistent sub-slot performance their customers depend on.

The Result

By integrating Cherry Servers into their infrastructure stack, Astralane achieved:

• Significant cost reductions for comparable hardware compared to several previous providers; 

• More predictable low-latency performance, supporting higher landing rates across their transaction pipeline;

• Notable decrease in network outages, especially compared to some of our previous providers.

These improvements directly enhanced Astralane’s ability to maintain real-time reliability for HFT clients, trading bots, and DEXs, where milliseconds translate into competitive advantage.

We would definitely recommend Cherry Servers to other Web3 service providers thanks to their:

• Cost-Effective Infrastructure;

• Reliable, Stable Performance;

• Secure, Dedicated Bare Metal Environment.

Cherry Servers continues to support Astralane’s mission to push the boundaries of speed in distributed systems.