everyone who is engaged in social or algorithmic trading sooner or later
recognizes the need to rent hosting for their robots or subscriptions.
Maintaining stable and uninterrupted hardware operation at home while ensuring
minimal delays to the broker’s servers can be quite a challenging task.
Numerous
factors can affect trading results, including power outages, internet provider
issues, and technical problems. Even a one-hour power cut can be crucial due to
potentially missed trading opportunities. There are other unforeseen events,
such as power supply failure or accidental damage to your laptop, which can
occur at any time.
These
problems are not uncommon. For example, in 2022, broadband outages experienced
by remote workers caused the UK economy to lose around GBP 1.3 billion
(Uswitch.com report). Professional traders, who value control over all
trading-related processes, prefer not to leave their valuable strategies to
chance.
Measures
like uninterruptible power supplies or connection to multiple internet
providers offer only partial solutions. That is where renting a reliable
machine for your robots and signals becomes the reasonable choice. Physical
servers can be costly, and thus a virtual private server (VPS) is the logical
and cost-effective solution.
However, in
practice, hosting solutions often fail to work properly due to various reasons,
and many traders have already had negative experiences with general-purpose
virtual servers.
Here are the
most common problems with conventional dedicated servers:
Low
performance.
Trading strategies require adequate technical resources, including CPU, RAM,
and disk space. Smaller hosting providers often offer limited-performance
machines which can let you down at the most critical moment. Another common problem
is overselling, where companies sell more resources than they actually have.
Assuming that subscribers do not use the
maximum resources all the time, such providers rely on the consumption-based
floating load distribution across the cluster. However, if all users
simultaneously start using the maximum resources, the system can fail.
Poor
location of access points.
It is not always possible to find a reliable and high-performance VPS in close
proximity to your broker’s trading servers. Trading from home can sometimes be
more efficient than using a virtual server located on a different continent.
High
price.
High-quality solutions meeting all your requirements can be expensive. While
companies can offer low-cost basic rates of USD 2-3 per month to attract
customers, a powerful machine may cost up to 10 times more.
Difficult
setup. If your VPS
is not designed specifically for trading, setting up the server, establishing a
connection, installing the trading platform, and launching your Expert Advisors
can be time-consuming. Even if you follow all steps from multi-page
instructions, the desired result is not guaranteed. This issue is closely
related to the next problem.
Inadequate
technical support.
When problems arise, it may take a long time to solve them. In a fast-paced
trading environment, where every minute counts, waiting for days to receive a
response is totally unacceptable.
Insufficient
security. Traders
value the confidentiality and safety of their trading algorithms. However, some
VPS services fail to provide any guarantees regarding personal data security.
Low
uptime. Every
hosting provider asserts the reliability of their services. However, even the
most reliable global providers always include additional information in their
agreements to acknowledge the possibility of downtime, for example, during
service maintenance. 100% uptime is unrealistic, but it is important that
downtimes do not happen too often.
Provider
shutdowns. While
this is not the most common case, smaller providers sometimes cease operation
for various reasons. Even though hosting users can be notified of such changes
in advance, cease of operation means that the trader will have to reconfigure
the entire trading environment from scratch.
MetaQuotes
offers a solution for those who are considering renting their first cloud
hosting server, as well as for those who have been disappointed with previous
solutions. If you are looking for a reliable VPS which overcomes the
aforementioned disadvantages, consider MetaTrader VPS — a specialized hosting
solution for MetaTrader platform users. Thousands of traders already use the
MetaTrader VPS every day.
MetaTrader VPS is a
specialized, natively integrated solution for professional social and
algorithmic trading, which does not require additional activations or
configurations. It is designed specifically for the MetaTrader platform,
ensuring full compatibility and performance. Robots and subscriptions can be
easily migrated to a virtual server in a few clicks. More than a dozen hosting
points are located around the world, to ensure optimal access with less than 5
milliseconds for 82% of all brokerage servers.
This means
that most traders can obtain a significant gain in execution speed through
MetaTrader VPS. MetaQuotes servers are hosted by the most reliable providers to
ensure a maximum uptime of 99.99%. You can be sure that your trading strategies
will run consistently 24/7.
Smart
resource allocation algorithms ensure that each trading platform receives
enough resources on a virtual machine: up to 3 GB of RAM, up to 16 GB of hard
disk space, and several CPUs are allocated on demand. In case of any
difficulties, our support team provides timely and qualified technical
assistance.
The rental
cost starts at USD 15 per month, with potential reductions for long-term
rentals. Additionally, we have recently introduced an updated service
interaction offering for brokers, enabling more companies to launch Sponsored
VPS projects for their clients. Contact your broker to inquire about the
availability of the free VPS service.
MetaTrader VPS surpasses
regular non-specialized solutions, offering a reliable trading environment,
optimal technical performance, and minimal risk for algorithmic and social
trading. MetaTrader VPS is the best virtual private server created by
MetaQuotes specifically for your trading requirements.
This article was written by FL Contributors at www.forexlive.com.