Can anyone recommend a reliable and preferably cheap virtual server host that allows EAs and MT5 (or 4)? Ideally one that I can monitor on my phone.
Is it easy to run an EA on a VS?
Thanks
No experience of my own but I know two people who use “Speedytradingservers” (dot com) and speak very highly of them, and they’re not affiliates or people with any connection other than being happy customers. Might be worth a look?
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First and important question: Which EAs in which timeframe?
If you don’t use Scalper EAs, then you can use any normal VPS provider. My EAs run on H1 and H4. I used a regional VPS provider. And selected the smallest offer there. 4GB Ram, 2 Core CPU and 100GB Harddisk are as a minimum completely sufficient for 1-2 MT4/5 instances. If you use Scalper EAs that run in a 1 or 5 minute timeframe, then you should be as close to the exchange as possible with the VPS. High execution speed is important here. But that will be expensive…
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It’s my own EA, execution time isn’t all that important but thanks for the info it is very useful to know.
Ah…what do you want to monitor? The MT Instances? The VPS alive status?
Hi @skulkrinbait,
I can suggest many VPS, I use VPS and VDS from 10 companies. There are cheap and expensive one. Linux and windows.
I can’t reveal the company here … it will be against BP’s policy 
Server selection base on your location, broker server and budget. Sometime your expertise will also be required.
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It executes trades, but doesn’t need to be quick per se.
I don’t think so. Unless you own it or are an affiliate or have a financial incentive to recommend it. We’re surely allowed to comment as customers on services we’ve found good, and reliable?
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This must be right. You could hardly have a forum where people (especially civil people) were allowed to complain, to criticize and to expose scams but not allowed to praise anything!
Hi @AmaraXanthe and @Civil_Ian_Civilian ,
I mentioned it before and got notification. Bellow is the proof 
You can ask the moderator for sure.
Read BP Guidelines carefully.
If you don’t believe it, try to mention a VPS provider company you are using here. Let see what happens.
To keep the content, I had to remove the company name. You can see the final content here …
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Aha… And how are you going to check that? We don’t have any real names here. Just because someone SAYS they have nothing to do with it doesn’t mean it’s true!
No, with all the scam here, I’d rather forbid everyone from doing that.
By the way, I’ve also been warned a couple of times because I used names without thinking about it… 
I used MQL5 Vps, no issues. My broker has free Vps if account maintains $5,000.
EA is very easy to sync on VPS. Takes some learning once you think it’s on and not, and use Magic Numbers in EA to decipher separate EAs and EAs on same pair.
I was running 9 EAs on MQL5 VPS with no issues, but my EAs didn’t require super low latency either.
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Fortunately the forum apparently has a different viewpoint: as you can see, there are some helpful recommendations above. And thanks for them. 
Make the change to cTrader and thank me later.
Everything is better than on MT5. Plus you can host your cbot for free on their servers. No messing about, just build it, launch it and turn it on
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This is for sure! 
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Apart from MT4. That’s even worse!
But obviously, as you say, cTrader is way superior to either.
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I meant everything on ctrader is better than MT5, but it was badly worded. Fixed now. Although every web based trading app I’ve seen is better than MT5 too, so it was still correct haha
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