Here is a trick to make your VPS trading safer

VPS are a good way to use automated systems safely, because of the stability of the connection and the fact that they are 24/24 online.
But VPS crashes. Even the best VPS WILL eventually crash one day

So if you have an EA on this VPS, the trading updates wil be disconnected.
If you use only hard coded SL and TP then it's not a problem because an opened trade will take care of itself. But you will obviously miss new trades.

Some VPS services include a tool that will automatically reconnects to the VPS (inputing the login and password) and restart the MT4s you were using before the crash. But a standart VPS doesn't have this tool.

So what is that trick to make a VPS safer ? Well you have to multiply the connections.
You can program your EA to work on two VPS simultaneously. Of course you have to be careful that it won't open two times the orders. But it can be done quite easily
Or, you can put one EA that opens/manages orders on one VPS and another EA that only manages the opened trades (TS for instance)

You can even use your regular PC AND 2 VPS for 3 simultaneous connections, or use more cheap VPS as a backup plan.

Then you will have the most stable/secure trading conditions that will very unlikely fail you

hope it helps

Jeff

Great Idea, only need to know how you check if VPS is running, and include the information in your EA....

you don't need to do that

let's suppose you trade a pair on two VPS with the same EA.
you just gotta check if an order is already opened on that pair before opening the order
if one VPS opens an order then the other will check before if an order is already opened, then if not will open its own order.

if you fear two orders might be opened at the same time (which might not happen i'm not sure) then you can delay the opening of orders on the second VPS by a few seconds, then you'll be sure only one order is opened at the same time.

or simply just manage orders on the second VPS so the lost orders don't go wandering by themselves

Great idea! But I even need a file transport between the two VPS, my experts exporting data while working, so if need to switch to another VPS, need to bee the exported data already there. Do you have any solution for this too?

check this https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/115

Thank you, I will check it. But maybe could work simple with dropbox...