Forex VPS for MetaTrader and cTrader in Europe

What a Forex VPS does for a trader

A forex VPS is a Windows server in a data centre that runs your trading terminal day and night. You connect over Remote Desktop, start MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 or cTrader, attach your Expert Advisors and disconnect, and the terminal keeps working after your laptop is off. MetaQuotes explains why that matters: Expert Advisors and copied signals need a constant connection to a trade server and uninterrupted power supply. Even a trailing stop works in the client terminal, not on the server, so it stops following the price when your PC sleeps.

At RS Computers a forex VPS is a Windows VPS on KVM with NVMe storage, a dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6 and full administrator access, in Amsterdam, Prishtina or Dublin. One plain point before the details: a VPS keeps a strategy running. It does not make that strategy profitable.

Which city: close to your broker's trade server

The delay between you and the server only decides how quickly the remote desktop reacts to your mouse. The delay between the server and your broker's trade server is the one every order from your EA travels, so choose the city for that one. MetaQuotes gives the same advice for its own hosting: pick the server closest to your broker.

London is the best known forex hub in Europe. LMAX Exchange lists its FX matching centres in London (LD4), New York (NY4), Tokyo (TY3) and Singapore (SG1), and FastMatch launched its FX matching engine in Equinix LD4, the Slough campus west of London. Retail brokers rarely publish where their trade servers sit, so the reliable way to know is to measure.

Our measured latency from European cities

We measured our own servers on 6 October 2026 with ping.pe, which pings an address from probes in many cities. Each figure is the lowest of about 10 pings from that city, as a round trip in milliseconds.

So a broker whose trade server is in London or Frankfurt is about 7 ms from our Amsterdam servers, which is why the plans above open on Amsterdam. These are figures from public probes to our servers, not to any named broker. Our Prishtina servers suit a broker in Vienna, at 18.6 ms. Dublin was not part of this test. For a broker in New York, 72.4 ms is mostly the Atlantic, and a server in the United States would serve you better than any of ours.

Check your broker's ping yourself

1. Install your terminal on the VPS and log in with the account you will trade, since demo and live accounts can use different servers.
2. Read the ping in the server connection indicator in the bottom right corner of MetaTrader.
3. Click the indicator to see the broker's access points. MetaTrader's server list shows each server's address, name and ping, and prefers the lowest.
4. Compare it with the ping on your home PC. If the VPS is not clearly lower, tell us on Telegram.

MetaTrader VPS sizing for MT4, MT5 and cTrader

No vendor publishes a memory figure per terminal. MetaQuotes says the hardware MetaTrader 5 needs depends on use conditions: the load from running MQL5 programs and the number of active instruments and charts. cTrader's system requirements ask for a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of memory at minimum, with 4 GB recommended, and that is for a whole computer. Windows takes its share first: Microsoft lists 2 GB of memory as the minimum for Windows Server. So we size from the bottom up, Windows first, then each terminal, then headroom. The right-hand column is our guidance, not a benchmark.

A terminal with 40 charts and five EAs needs far more than one with two charts and one EA, so we give ranges, not a terminal count per gigabyte. After a week of trading, check memory in Task Manager and move up a plan from the client area if it sits near the top. vCPUs are shared with other servers on the host, so leave headroom.

MetaQuotes virtual hosting or your own Forex VPS?

MetaTrader has a hosting service built in: you rent a virtual terminal from inside MT4 or MT5 and migrate your EAs to it. For one account running a plain EA it is the simplest choice. Its rules set the limits: one rented terminal works with one trading account only, and an EA that calls a DLL is stopped. The migration help adds that the virtual platform has no user interface and that accounts with one-time password authentication can't use it.

Your own Windows VPS has none of those limits. Run as many terminals as the memory allows, mix MT4, MT5 and cTrader, use DLL-based EAs and trade copiers, and see the desktop whenever you connect. In exchange you keep Windows updated and secure. Our Windows RDP and MetaTrader setup guide covers the first login and keeping terminals running through disconnects and restarts.

cTrader on a Windows VPS

The cTrader desktop app is a Windows program, and its requirements list Windows 7 or higher. It installs on Windows Server the same way MetaTrader does, but neither vendor names Windows Server as supported (MetaQuotes lists Windows 10 and 11), so it is common practice rather than a vendor promise. Test your setup on the first day.

When a VPS is the wrong tool

If a strategy depends on sub-millisecond execution, such as high-frequency scalping, a VPS a few milliseconds from the broker won't deliver it. LMAX states internal exchange latency under 50 microseconds for its matching engine. At that scale you need co-location inside the broker's or venue's own data centre, a different and far more expensive product.

Keeping a trading server safe and online

• Use a long, unique administrator password and limit Remote Desktop to your own IP address.
• Plan Windows update restarts for the weekend, when the forex market is closed, then connect once to check that AutoTrading is back on.
• Free weekly backups are included and restored from the client area. Keep your own copy of EA files and settings as well.
• If RDP stops answering, the console in the client area reaches the server directly.
• Get an alert when the server stops responding, with our Uptime Kuma monitoring guide.

Every plan carries a 99% monthly uptime SLA, with a service credit below 99% and a full refund for the month below 95%. Our NOC monitors the infrastructure 24/7, and support answers Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00, fastest on Telegram. Compare everything on all VPS and VDS plans.