I've finally found a good VPS

Hi guys,

I know this is going to look like a thinly disguised advertisement for a VPS provider, but take a look at my previous posts, I'm interested in testing EA's and strategies, not promoting VPS services.

However, I've used lots and lots and different VPS providers over the years (not just for forex, for work too), and they all have their drawbacks.

The biggest problem I tend to have with using a VPS for forex is that they tend to have downtime or restart, which means MT4 shuts down. Or they are pretty expensive for a windows version, which can be annoying if you're just running demo and throwing £30+ down the drain every month.

I've been using Memset for about 5 months now and they have been absolutely faultless.

What's even better is that it only costs me £15 per month for a windows VPS. I'm pretty sure that's the cheapest I've used.

Mods, I apologise if this is an infraction of the rules, and if so, please delete this post.

However, there are so many terrible VPS services out there (and believe me, I've tried them all!) I'm just sharing one that finally seems to offer what I need, and hopefully other FF traders can benefit too.

I'm running 8 MT4 platforms at once, all with some pretty resource heavy EAs, and it doesn't flinch. It's hasn't restarted once and I haven't had any down time yet.

Not sure whether they will be any use for US based traders, but I'm in the UK using Alpari UK and FinFx and everything has been running great.

Thanks

Steven

Hi Steven

I doubt you'll revisit this page but, if you do, is your experience still a positive one?

Like you I am UK based and have been using Commercial Network Services (CNS) for about 4 months. They have a stonkingly fast connection with Alpari UK using their London centre and overall I'm quite pleased. But at around $30/month it now seems a little uncompetitive. I'll probably make the jump depending on your answer.

Amazing results on The Beast by the way. Unfortunately I don't have the necessary credit yet to join in on the thread.

Chris

hi chris,

i'm still using Memset and still find them to be absolutely faultless

If you have a look at their website, they provide hosting services to loads of huge companies (my firm also uses them, which is how I heard about them), so they're not just some reselling broker.

I was paying about £15 per month, but after a while I noticed my VPS was acting a bit weird. I contacted them on their chat support and they ran a diagnostic (turns out there was nothing wrong, I was just running so many instances of MT4 and FxTrade etc that it was eating up all my RAM!). So I asked for more RAM and they upgraded it there and then along with increasing the CPU power (an extra £5 per month), rebooted my VPS and I was good to go!

Give them a bash, it's only £15 for the month and if you don't like it you don't need to renew it.

Happy to help!

Thanks Steven

I'll arrange the transfer straight away and then run them in parallel for a while before cancelling my CNS suscription. Just to be sure.

I'll post here to let you al know if I'm unhappy in any way, so if you hear nothing then it's safe to assume all is well.

Excellent! Let me know how it goes.

I've just sent you a PM with a link to how to get 10% off.

Am in U.S. and looking for a VPS provider elsewhere. Any tips on whether they will accept customers outside UK, and if so would your experience counsel no problems or significant problems given the distance? Thanks in advance m8.

My trading changed to a method that didn't honestly justify the speed and power integrity of a VPS so I ended up cancelling about March 2012 time.
Not sure if they accept US clients but that should be easy to check. Not too sure about the speed from the US although that will obviously only effect your access to the VPS. I was using Alpari UK and I recall the trades (made by an EA) were extremely quick.
Like Steven, my experience was very good. Something that will stay in my memory is their excellent customer service, not that you need it that much.
It is very easy to cancel by not renewing so it may be worth giving them a go just on that.
Good luck - Chris

Appreciate that, Chris! Will be traveling again soon and have finally decided to take the plunge with a VPS for running mechanical system trades. Memset really look good, thanks for the tips and good trading to you!

Send them an email, they are normally pretty quick with responses.

I'm still using them and still very happy with them. Put it this way, rarely even think about my VPS, which gives you an idea to how stable/reliable the service is.

They've also just brought out a fairly new service where you can take a "snapshot" image of your server and store it. You can set it up to take one every day/week/month etc. So you end up with a back up from which they can restore your complete server from if you ever have a disaster. Pretty handy and it costs peanuts.