MB Trading: Free VPS Hosting

Dear ForexFactory Members,

Do you require a dedicated and stable connection from your computer to our execution trade servers for your MT4 Expert Advisors or custom software? If so, look no further, we have your solution and at no cost to you.

We are pleased to announce that we have created a strategic partnership with PhotonVPS, a leader in Windows VPS hosting that utilizes the latest hardware and most comprehensive network possible. Creating multiple packages to choose from, the VPS can be used for MetaTrader 4 Client hosting for Expert Advisors or as a source for complete Black Box hosting for your own trading software. Either solution can be connected to MB Trading for FOREX, Stocks, Futures and Options.

To help you get started, we will give everyone the first 90 days free to get your software situated and tested with no setup fee. Thereafter, to continue using the VPS for free, we have set a very low minimum trade requirement for any asset class that we offer that is based on a month to month basis.

To learn more and take your trading to the next level and visit: MBT VPS

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Have to ask, why no Linux VPS?

If you have specific hosting needs not covered in the above packages, please contact [email protected].

Justin, does this apply to the Hyper V setups?

Hi SYXF,

We received your email and someone familiar with our hosting solutions will be contacting you shortly and can address the Hyper-V with you there.

Your VPS hosting is slightly cheaper than mine, but if i can get it
for free, that's so much better.

May i know what do u mean by NO SET UP FEE ?

AND, the condition to get free VPS, is
"run $1,000,000 USD in total monthly FOREX volume (entering and exiting counts twice) "

can u explain more clearer on this,

thank u

so what was the answer to the hyper-v. is it offered?

are their any forced reboots or updates to server?

there's no reply to my question.

From what I know MBtrading does gives free 1st 3 months, provided
we trade 1 standard lot on that month, or else they charge us $16.95

But at the momen, I m using SWVPS, charge me $18 / month, not bad.

golady9,

No set up fee means just that......you simply pay the monthly subscription nothing else. Actually its just sales-speak.....I don't know of any VPS providers that charge a set up fee?

The provider will bill you for the $16.95 and MB Trading will credit your trading account to that value around the middle of the month. I currently use it as a free method to fund my account(I have the $69 package).

$10 000 000 equates to 10 standard lots(MB actually use mini-lots) and you are correct, it would amount to 5 lots in and 5 lots out, so if the total volume in your account if 5 lots of open and closed trades you would qualify.

ybfjax, the system uses the normal windows updates. I got caught out the first time by the auto-reboot which was set to the default re-boot at 3am. I have now set this to intall updates and reboot on the weekend.

I have found that they are ok. The occasional issue crops up but I have had the same with SWVPS, so no provider is perfect. They respond quickly enough if you open a support ticket, so by and large I am satisfied.

in mb trading, 0.1 lot is 1,000 units (micro) of contract currency. 1.0 lot is 10,000 (mini) and 10.0 lot is 100,000 (standard) of contract currency, respectively. so 10,000,000 would be 1,000 lots. I looked back on the requirements and I see that kenny perhaps mistyped the zero. Only $1,000,000 in monthly volume required. That would be 100 MBTrading lots. That's 10 standard size lots for most other brokers..

I would like confimation from MB that the volume refers to per-side trade. not round-turn trade. In other words, 50 MB lots in and 50 MB lots out as Kenny suggested, not 100 MB lots in, and 100 MB lots out.

MB is the ONLY broker to do this (0.1 = micro lot not mini lot). Only their programming team knows why they couldn't use 0.01 like everyone else. luckily i have a switch in my EA that allows me to specify broker lots. But I would like to know since i brought it back into my mind WHY MB trading decided to make 0.1 lot micro instead of mini lot?

I went back to CNS Commercial Network Services. Their Hyper-V setup has ZERO forced reboots. I need that so that my EAs/scripts do not reset. I need always-on, i-direct-when-to-push-reset-button access over my vps/server. You can get a value setup for $35-40. I run numerous demos for forward testing, so I use the standard package with 1gb ram. About $75 or $80. I liked CNS before, but they had the forced maintenance every weekend and the way my scripts were setup, it required that I come back to the vps and reset my scripts. If you have 30-40 demos running, you see how devastating that can be.

I had GalaxyVisions dedicated server. They never touched my server unless I wanted to. i must admit that 95% of the time the server was ok. But over the past 2 months or so, I had a couple of unexplained reboots. I never inquired to support. Then they had a recent transformer blow, which took their entire building offline for 2 days. It wasn't the transformer blowing that i was upset about, but it was HOW they handled the support. I was asking a bunch of questions about their redundancy and how they planned on preventing future occurrances from happening (I was told when I signed up that they had power generators, etc)

Then I just so happened last week i was working on my server and all of a sudden, i lost connection i then went to galaxyvisions website....also no connection. This was for about 23-30 min or so. Everything came back up, and of course, my server was rebooted. I submitted support tickets specifically asking what happened. They avoided all of them (that's not the first time I've had support tickets ignored). That was enough proof for me. I no longer recommend GalaxyVisions.

You are right, no one is perfect because everyone's point of view and what fits their needs is different. But from my point of view currently CNS is a great option for traders. Their platform is tweaked just for trader needs and i've been told that some of their vps have been left on for months without reboot due to the hyper-v platform.