How to choose the best VPS for Forex trading

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How to choose the best VPS for Forex trading

Most serious forex traders use a virtual server for their expert advisors, but not all VPS server are equal in performance.
There are about 4 popular VPS technologies:

 

1. Virtuozzo: Virtuozzo is a proprietary operating system-level virtualization product produced by Parallels, Inc. Both windows and Linux. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers creates multiple isolated containers (also known as Virtual Environments (VEs), or Virtual Private Servers (VPSs)) on a single physical server. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtualizes at the operating system level, rather than the hardware level as other Virtual Machine (VM) products frequently do. This allows the sharing of hardware, systems management effort, and sometimes software licenses among different workloads. A container behaves in aspects as if it was a stand-alone server. But this is not the optimal vitalization technology for forex trading because the VPS vendor can over sell the machines and give you less optimal performance.

1. OpenVZ: OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated containers (also known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. This technology is better suited for forex trading.

1. Xen: Xen is a free software virtual machine for IA-32, x86-64, IA-64 and PowerPC 970 architectures. On most CPUs, Xen uses a form of virtualization known as paravirtualization, meaning that the guest operating system must be modified to use a special hypercall ABI instead of certain architectural features. Intel has contributed modifications to Xen to support their VT-x (formerly Vanderpool) architecture extensions. Similarly AMD has contributed support for their AMD-V extensions. Because of the Kernel modifications need it to run this is not recommended for Forex Trading.

1. Microsoft Hyper-V: Microsoft Hyper-V which is a hypervisor-based technology that provides true Hardware Virtualization and High level of Isolation from other virtual machines on the physical server. With the use of this new virtualization technology, users no longer have to worry about having their services being affected by other resource intensive services running on the same box. This is the best choice for Forex trading because of the great isolation this technology offers.

When you use a VPS service you will be sharing the computer resources with all other users on the machine which is why is essential that your portion of the computer is not being affected by the other users. On Virtuozzo VPS services you may experience great performance and a total computer freeze at time, not the optimal scenario for live trading.

After having tested many VPS technologies we highly recommend that you use only Hyper-V VPS host, the platform is very stable and the resources are always available. That leads to the best choice for running your expert advisors.

Below you have two images of 4xWatch running on different types of VPS of technologies .

On the first image we see how our Virtuozzo VPS fail for just a few seconds every other minute. That was probably cause by another user/users of the same node overloading the server and cause our MetaTrader to loose an accumulated 27 minutes on just one day.

http://4xtrader.net/images/4xWatchVPS.JPG

Are second server is using the Hyper-V tecnolotegy , it has the same amount of RAM and is connected to the same server on the same Broker. But the 4xWatch reports a totally different story, the connection is rock solid true out the day with only a small disconnection during rollover.

http://4xtrader.net/images/4xWatchVPS2.JPG

This demonstrate how important is choosing the best VPS technology, your results will very depending on the load of the non Hyper-V server load.

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Could I give your 4xwatch software a try?

Could you give a list of VPS providers that use Hyper-V technology?

Thank you!

The latency with my broker is according to a ping test 13ms on average. The latency with my ISP is around 7ms.
Because of this I suppose using a vps will not speed up my connection with the broker's server considerably? Or am I wrong?
I have done some research on the internet but could not find good answers.
Please, enlighten me?

13ms and 7ms is good enough.

i am using VPSupload.com. it is very good for forex trading

Someone could recommended the best VPS provider with affordable price?

Hello,
maybe someone could recommend VPS for 3TG Brokers?

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Hey Guys,

I'm late to both forex, and VPS....what is the ideal number when it comes to "slices" to use for you VPS?


I don't know if the slices are standard, but here are the specks for the VPS I am using:

CPU Cores Memory Storage Transfer
1 Slice= 1 1024MB 25GB 1TB
2 Slices= 1 2048MB 50GB 2TB
3 Slices= 1 3072MB 75GB 3TB
4 Slices= 1 4098MB 100GB 4TB
5 Slices= 2 5120MB 125GB 5TB

Really $30/months is about where I would top of for right now, so that's why I ended with the 5th slice, but feedback would be appreciated.

thanks!

Hi,

I just started using the virtual server through Meta trader, conclusion, super easy, low latency, quick, cheap... USD 10 a month per account, with discounts for longer periods. Very good..

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Thanks for the response...I have a VPS set up...just trying to figure out what size I need that works best for forex...I bought one, but when I tried to upload an indicator, if froze my MT4....so I take from that it doesn't have enough juice. I went through customer service and added another slice...but I wanted to see if that would be enough.

I am using them: http://www.interserver.net/r/355930

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Darwinex - 2.21 ms
LMAX - 2.13 ms
Tickmill - 2.15 ms
ActiveTrades - 14.45 ms

From the the Server in NYC, I have tested few other brokers:
Pepperstone - 2.13 ms
ICMarkets - 2.41 ms
ATC - 1.83 ms

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Hi, i'm looking for a vps to run mt4 with 12 charts and indies, i'm interesting in vps for my trade manager EA and to easily access to my charts from my PC, Macbook and Ipad.
Could someone please tell me specs i need for a good vps configuration ? Vcpu,Ram... thanks

Based on your requirements, you can at least start with 2 GB Memory and 2 vCPUs. Don't forget to choose SSD VPS rather ordinary HDD VM. Best of Luck with your purchase.

I use Interserver VPS, AAA+. Prices start $6/month. No price rises for life.
If you are new to a VPS choose HyperV for the platform($10/month), Windows 2012 (faster with one slice, windows 2016 you will need 2 slices) - [See image]
When you have your VPS, go to windows update and turn it to manual, otherwise it will update and restart closing all your MT4's. I use the HyperV/Windows 2012 with one slice and I am running 11 MT4's with EA's no problem.

I have been using www.iwishost.com for past 4 years and all i can say is that their service is truly the best i have seen.

There are lots of providers in vps market and i also tried some others, but these guys are simply the best.

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Thanks for the tips turning off windows update.

I'm using win2012 1 slice.

My broker is located in NY, currently my local machine ping to my broker is 400ms (i'm not in US obviously, NY is halfway around the world). With this VPS the ping to my broker from 400ms down to 2ms.

$10 / month VPS connection is unbelievable for a 2ms connection in NY.

I only started using this VPS, cannot comment on uptime or trades. Will have to check back.

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