Forex VPS

The fastest path between your EA and your broker.

Hosted in the same rooms your broker is — Equinix LD4 in London, NY4 in Secaucus and TY3 in Tokyo. Sub-1ms latency to MT4, MT5 and cTrader, in writing.

  • No credit card to start
  • Free migrations
  • Cancel any time
PoP · Equinix LD4
live · 5s avg
BrokerPathms
IC Markets Equinix LD4 / NY4 0.60
Pepperstone Equinix LD4 / NY4 0.70
FP Markets Equinix NY4 / TY3 0.90
FXCM Equinix NY4 0.40
Exness Equinix LD4 / AM3 0.80
Tickmill Equinix LD4 0.50
Median across 12 majors 0.68 ms
<1ms
to top brokers at LD4 / NY4
3
Equinix PoPs (LD4 · NY4 · TY3)
99.999%
Trader uptime SLA
24/7
Trader support, in 18 languages
Broker latency

Live latency, all 12 majors.

Updated every 5 seconds from probes inside each Equinix PoP. If we miss our SLA on your broker, the month is on us.

IC Markets
Equinix LD4 / NY4
0.60ms
live
Pepperstone
Equinix LD4 / NY4
0.70ms
live
FP Markets
Equinix NY4 / TY3
0.90ms
live
FXCM
Equinix NY4
0.40ms
live
Exness
Equinix LD4 / AM3
0.80ms
live
Tickmill
Equinix LD4
0.50ms
live
FXTM
Equinix LD4
0.70ms
live
OANDA
Equinix NY4 / LD4
0.60ms
live
Saxo Bank
Equinix LD4
0.50ms
live
Admiral Markets
Equinix LD4
0.70ms
live
XM
Equinix LD4 / NY4
0.80ms
live
Vantage
Equinix NY4 / TY3
0.90ms
live
Latency

Cross-connected, not just colocated.

Sitting in LD4 is one thing — having a fibre cross-connect to your broker's cage is another. We run dedicated fibre paths to the top 30 retail brokers, not best-effort internet.

  • Direct Equinix Cross Connect to top brokers
  • BGP-anycast DNS at every PoP
  • Optional dedicated 10 Gbps cross-connect for prop desks
Latency budget · LD4
Rack-to-rack fibre 0.18 ms
Switch-to-switch 0.22 ms
OS jitter 0.21 ms
Headroom 0.39 ms
Total: 0.61 ms · within SLA
Stack

MT4, MT5, cTrader and your weird Python bot.

Pre-installed terminals, signed and patched. Bring your own EAs and indicators or pick from our gallery — we never inspect what you trade.

  • MT4 build 1420, MT5 build 4385, cTrader 5.0 — kept current
  • Hardened Windows Server 2022 with Defender exclusions for trading processes
  • Python 3.12, .NET 8 and a Telegram-notifications agent ready to run
MetaTrader 5
build 4385
MetaTrader 4
build 1420
cTrader
5.0.10
NinjaTrader 8
8.1.3
TradingView Webhooks
agent v2
Telegram Notifier
v3
$ hostengine forex install --terminal mt5 --broker icmarkets ✓
Operations

Set it up once, clone it forever.

One golden image, fan it out across NY4 and LD4 with a single command. Snapshot before every trading session, roll back when the EA misbehaves.

  • Snapshot before each session, hourly during the day
  • Clone an entire trader setup to a new PoP in 90 seconds
  • Pause Windows Update during NFP, FOMC, ECB and BoJ
Daily routine · automatic
  • 07:00 GMT Pre-London snapshot
  • 08:30 EA health check · 4 pass
  • 12:30 Calendar lock · NFP window
  • 13:30 NFP print · 4ms broker tick
  • 20:55 Pre-rollover snapshot
Plans

Priced for traders, not for procurement.

USD pricing, no contracts, instant downgrades. Every plan can move PoPs at no extra charge.

Solo

One MT4 or MT5 terminal, light EA load.

$19 /mo
  • 2 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 60 GB NVMe
  • Windows Server 2022 or Ubuntu 22.04
  • MT4 + MT5 pre-installed
  • Choose LD4, NY4 or TY3
  • Sub-1ms to your broker, in writing
  • Auto-updates paused during news
Start with Solo
Trader
Most popular

Multiple terminals, several EAs, prop accounts.

$39 /mo
  • 4 vCPU dedicated · 6 GB RAM · 120 GB NVMe
  • Up to 8 MT4/MT5/cTrader instances
  • Pre-warmed RAM for charting
  • RDP + Parsec low-lag remote
  • Hourly snapshots, 30-day window
  • Free clone to a second PoP
Start with Trader
Quant

Algo desks, prop firms and copy-trade infrastructure.

$129 /mo
  • 8 vCPU dedicated · 16 GB RAM · 320 GB NVMe
  • Cross-connect to your broker on request
  • Static IP at LD4 + NY4
  • 5-minute snapshots
  • Direct Equinix Metal interconnect
  • Dedicated trader-engineer on Telegram
Start with Quant

All plans include Windows or Linux license, MT4/MT5/cTrader, hourly snapshots and 24/7 Telegram support.

Who it's for

From scalpers to prop firms.

Discretionary scalper

Trades EURUSD on news prints

Pinned to LD4 with sub-0.6ms to IC Markets — slippage on stop entries is 38% lower than running from a home connection in Madrid.

EA developer

Runs 24 EAs across 6 prop accounts

Cloned a single tuned terminal across NY4 and LD4 in 90 seconds. Daily snapshot costs nothing and rolls back any failed expert.

Prop firm operations lead

Provisions 220 trader VPSs

API-driven onboarding spins up a fresh Windows VPS, MT5, the firm risk EA and the trader's credentials in under three minutes per trader.

Compare

The boring details that decide trades.

Capability
HostEngine
Hyperscaler A (region: eu-west)
Legacy Forex VPS B
PoPs at Equinix LD4/NY4/TY3 All three None LD4 only
Latency to IC Markets / Pepperstone 0.6 – 0.7 ms 8 – 14 ms 2 – 3 ms
MT4 / MT5 / cTrader pre-installed
Windows Server included +$22/mo
Free move between PoPs
Hourly snapshots
Trader support on Telegram
Stack

Trade what you already trade.

Integrates with the stack you already use

  • MetaTrader 4
  • MetaTrader 5
  • cTrader
  • NinjaTrader
  • TradingView
  • Python 3.12
  • .NET 8
  • FIX 4.4
  • Pine Script
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Mailgun
FAQ

Trader questions, trader answers.

Will my latency really be under 1 ms?
If your broker peers at Equinix LD4, NY4 or TY3, yes — the path is rack-to-rack inside the same building. We publish per-broker measurements continuously and refund the month if your broker exceeds 1 ms over a rolling 24-hour window.
Can I bring my own EA or indicator?
Of course. RDP into the box, drop the .ex4 / .ex5 / .mq5 in MQL4 or MQL5, restart the terminal. We do not inspect, sandbox or rate-limit anything you run.
Do you support cTrader and TradingView bots?
Yes. cTrader, NinjaTrader, TradingView webhooks via NgrokFree alternatives, and any custom Python or .NET strategy you bring. Pre-installed images are optional, not enforced.
What about news outages?
We pause Windows updates and Defender scans during NFP, FOMC and ECB windows automatically. You can override the calendar with a JSON file.
Is Linux supported?
Yes — pick Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12 with WINE plus a hardened MT5 image. Memory footprint drops by ~40% vs. Windows for the same workload.
Can I move PoPs without re-installing?
One click in the dashboard or one CLI command — we copy the boot snapshot to the destination PoP and reboot the IP. Whole thing takes 90 seconds.

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Halcyon
Acme Cloud
Pinepoint
Verdant
Helix Labs
Riverstone
Iron Forge
Beacon
Ready when you are

Trade from inside the rack.

Spin up an LD4, NY4 or TY3 VPS with MT5 pre-installed and your favourite EA running in under three minutes. First week free, no card.

  • No credit card to start
  • Free migration from any provider
  • 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
Frankfurt · 3 nodes · healthy
38ms p99
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s
$ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1"
✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q  (172.247.18.42)
✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached
✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days

$ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl
✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s
55s
median provision
14
global regions
$200
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