Forex VPS platform

If you are a retail broker looking to grow your revenue you should consider our managed forex VPS platform. It’s a powerful tool that can help you bring in more commission fees by increasing trader’s activity and transforming position traders into day traders.

Our managed forex VPS platform is also a great choice for brokers that want to expand into new locations as well as attract and keep valuable customers by offering them a high-performance VPS server.

With support provided by trained engineers, Windows licenses, daily backup and a dedicated team of account managers included as standard, our platform is designed to get you up and running with forex VPS servers quickly.

We currently offer forex VPS from our data centers in London, Amsterdam and Hong Kong with more to come in the future. We are continually looking to expand so if you are interested in using this service in a location that we don’t currently support speak to a member of our team.

Yes, customers can white label our forex VPS product with their own branding. Here’s a breakdown of what we offer:

Brand personalization: Full customization of your forex VPS, including the addition of your company logo and desktop background to align it with your branding.

Flexible settings configuration: We can configure any setting within the operating system. You don't need to know exactly what you want - talk to us and we'll help you to configure your VPS fleet precisely to your needs and preferences.

Expertise at your disposal: Our VPS infrastructure is built on Windows and we employ some of the top Windows engineers in the industry.

You can run Expert Advisors (EAs) on your VPS for no additional cost. We support all cBots, Expert Advisors and other tools and programmes that need external dynamic-link libraries.

Yes, our forex VPS servers are run on Windows-based hypervisors meaning we support Windows-based software, including MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader.

Every VPS has a trading platform client (MetaTrader or cTrader) installed. It connects to your trading servers in the same way a regular PC does - via the network. You can install Expert Advisors or any other automation software on the VPS, just like on a traditional computer.

While both a VPS and a home computer can connect to trading platforms, the VPS usually resides in closer proximity to trading servers, often in the same data center. This ensures a VPS can offer lower latency and therefore faster order execution.

VPS and VPN are two distinct technologies for different purposes:

• VPS (Virtual Private Server): A virtual computer located in a data center

• VPN (Virtual Private Network): Technology designed to encrypt your entire internet connection

Using a VPN when connecting to a VPS adds an extra layer of security. It prevents your Internet Service Provider (ISP) from monitoring your online traffic and understanding your connectivity (they won’t be able to tell that you are connected to a VPS).

But even without a VPN, your connection to a VPS remains secure and encrypted: the modern Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has inherent encryption, operating similarly to an HTTPS-enabled website.

A dedicated IP address is not necessary, but it greatly improves your trading experience. One bad actor sharing an IP address might shut down your connection to a trading server for several hours, or even a whole day.

In order to access your VPS when it shares an IP address with other traders you have to add a "port number" to the address of your server. This may pose problems when:

1. Your RDP client doesn't support this

2. That port is blocked by the ISP (most likely to happen on a public WiFi in a cafe, hotel etc.)

To avoid these issues, each of our forex VPS servers is assigned its own unique IP address meaning that VPS servers on our platform don’t share IP addresses.

Since a VPS is a virtual machine working somewhere in a data center, you just need a device capable of connecting to the internet (e.g., any laptop with Windows, an iPhone or Android smartphone, a TV, or a Linux-based PC).

When talking about requirements for a VPS itself, that depends on the number of MetaTrader instances you would like to run on it. For one MT instance, 1 CPU with 1 GB RAM is enough. When you want to run more MetaTrader clients on one VPS, you will need to choose something more powerful.

These are our recommendations:

• 2-3 terminals, 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM

• 4-6 terminals, 4 CPU, 4 GB RAM

• 7+ terminals, 8 CPU, 8 GB RAM

As for the disk space, the MetaTrader client doesn't have a particularly significant disk footprint, but 30GB is our recommended minimum. Just keep an eye on the log folders which may fill up quickly if you execute a lot of trades.

• C:\Users\<your login name>\AppDataRoaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\<loong ID>\Logs

• C:\Users\<your login name>\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\<loong ID>\MQL<4 or 5>\Logs

HDD (Hard Disk Drive):

• Composition: Consists of rotating metal discs with a magnetic coating

• Cost: Generally less expensive than SSD

• Speed: Tends to be slower in retrieving data compared to SSD

SSD (Solid State Drive):

• Composition: Made from flash memory, similar to the one found in USB sticks

• Cost: Typically more expensive than HDD for the same storage capacity

• Speed: Provides near-instantaneous data access, significantly faster than HDD

For MetaTrader client (forex VPS), we recommend using HDD for regular traders. The MetaTrader client is not a particularly disk-intensive application, therefore disk subsystem speed is not important, but using HDD allows you to optimize your VPS costs.

For trading servers, disk speed is crucial, as they host a database containing all trade data. We strongly recommend using SSD here, to ensure quick updates and a smooth trading operation.

Yes, you can connect your CRM and Trader's Room to our platform through our API in order to automate the management of your forex VPS.

All customers of servers.com have access to trained engineers via our support team who are available to contact 24/7. Customers are also assigned a dedicated account management team right from the beginning and they stay with a customer for their time with servers.com. Specialists in their specific areas, they provide a valuable, consultative resource for designing, deploying and managing your forex VPS. All of this support is provided as default at no extra cost.

Yes, we back up our forex VPS services daily and we retain those daily backups for 15 days. When you terminate a forex VPS instance, we keep a backup copy for 30 days for redundancy.