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Forex VPS hosting

If you get to a level where 24/7 Forex trading uptime is a serious issue, such as your home Internet connection is unreliable (few of us have a secondary ISP for a spare Internet connection) or you can’t leave your laptop or desktop PC on all the time.

Or worst yet, your Windows OS keeps crashing, then you can consider hosting your MetaTrader (or some other Windows based software) on a remote server, using a specialised Forex hosting company.

No normal, so called “shared” hosting is not sufficient, as it isn’t reliable enough for uptime and performance to peak and dip, depending on the actions, or mis-actions, of probably 1000 other shared users. You have no control over who you get to share with. it might be a spammer or hacker.

A dedicated server is ideal, where an entire computer with a direct connection to the hosts backbone is yours alone. But these cost one to several hundred dollars per month, as you are basically leasing an entire computer. As it is remote, there may also be other fees for maintaining it, and power reset and upgrading and cold steel restore are major considerations with this too.

A far more economic solution, but one still costing around $30 per month, is a so called VPS, which is  a Virtual Private Server. A VPS server is one where a software shell “emulates” what a dedicated hardware device would do, by sectioning off certain resources, like memory and bandwidth on the backbone Internet connection.

This software shell protects you from other users actions and gives you a guaranteed performance level. But you get the cost saving of not having to own an entire computer. Just the part you need. You know that even home computers can multi task right? By say playing an MP3 file while you type in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet doing your financial budgeting, simultaneously while your email is being checked. So like that, but much better managed.

Well a VPS server is a special multi-tasking hosting package.

And a Forex VPS provider is a specialist host who knows about things like MetaTrader Window software. They often have these pre-installed. You just login using a visual terminal, where you can use that PC remotely, just like it was in your house. Be careful about the SHUT DOWN button on that one It really works.

This is Microsoft Windows VPS hosting of course, as most automated Forex trading software, like MetaTrader 4 and soon to be MetaTrader 5, is a PC based software program, vs Linux, or Mac, though I’m sure there are some somewhere.

However in the real world there is no such thing as 100% up time. The Internet itself can even go down in sections. But a VPS at a host, is in a dedicated environment, with UPS (battery sustained mains power) constant powering, temperature controlled, a secure bomb proof security building (so no one just walks in and shuts down your computer trading platform, or steals your account log-in details) and the computers are dedicated and have never had games or Office installed on them.

All this means they run well and continuously.

For serious Forex trading, such a remote trading platform like a VPS is a large relief. But as I say it isn’t 100%. Soemtimes hosts offer a 100% “guarantee”, but that only means you get part of your hosting fee money back for the time it is down. Well in live Forex trading that doesn’t really help, as we may be talking about thousands of dollars lost. Not a few bucks in hosting fees.

So the reality of a web host, is not what they “say” but what they “do”.

One company who says 99.9% up-time, but seems to be up 24/7/365 is Black Box in the USA.

This is an affiliate link, so I may get some compensation for recommending them to you, but I would be stupid to recommend you somebody who couldn’t deliver, as it would ruin our long-term relationship, which is worth far more to me. And you.

Point is, you won’t get Black Box hosting cheaper anywhere else any way.

So here is where you can check out the Black Box Forex VPS hosting

Happy and SAFE trading

Forex Pete

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