Dedicated Servers for
Forex & HFT

A forex VPS is a virtual machine on shared hardware. Your allocated vCPU is shared with other tenants — during load spikes, other VMs on the same host can steal CPU cycles that should be processing your EA’s tick data. This is called CPU steal and it introduces unpredictable latency spikes. On bare metal, the CPU is physically yours. There is no hypervisor, no CPU steal, and no resource contention. For traders running latency-sensitive EAs or strategies where consistent sub-millisecond processing matters, bare metal eliminates the unpredictable jitter that makes VPS execution inconsistent.

MT4 and MT5 are native Windows applications. They run on Windows Server without any compatibility layer. The MetaTrader 5 terminal and the MT5 server-side components both require Windows. Windows Server 2019 and 2022 are available on all our forex server configurations — either included in the monthly price or as BYOL. For traders who prefer Linux, MT4 and MT5 can run under Wine, but for production trading environments we recommend native Windows Server to avoid any compatibility issues with broker DLLs and EA indicators.

Our Frankfurt datacenter is directly connected to DE-CIX — the world’s largest internet exchange by traffic volume. Most major retail forex brokers (IC Markets, Pepperstone, FP Markets, FXCM, IG Group) co-locate their MT4/MT5 server infrastructure at Equinix LD4 in Slough or Equinix LD8 in London’s Docklands. The Frankfurt → London round-trip via DE-CIX is consistently ~12ms. This is the lowest latency path available from a non-UK datacenter to London broker infrastructure, making Frankfurt the dominant choice for European MT4/MT5 traders who can’t afford UK co-location costs.

Each MT4 terminal instance consumes 50–200 MB RAM and minimal CPU when running stable EAs on standard timeframes. On the Ryzen 9 9950X with 192 GB DDR5, you can comfortably run 20–60 MT4/MT5 instances simultaneously (depending on EA complexity and number of open charts per instance) without resource contention. MT5 multi-threaded strategy tester can use all 16 cores simultaneously for backtesting, completing months of tick-data backtests in minutes rather than hours. For institutional operations running hundreds of accounts, the EPYC 9354P (32 cores) or EPYC 9555P (64 cores) provides the parallel capacity needed.

Hardware failures are covered by our replacement SLA — failed components are replaced within 4 hours and a replacement server is provisioned within 24 hours if needed. For trading operations where a single server failure is unacceptable, we recommend running redundant servers in two locations (e.g., Frankfurt + New York) with your trading software configured to failover automatically. The cost of a second Xeon E-2286G entry config at €209/mo is low insurance against a gap in EA execution during a market event. Add Managed Pro for 15-minute incident response and proactive monitoring that catches issues before they become outages.

Yes. Singapore is the primary financial hub for Southeast Asian forex and is the location of choice for SGX (Singapore Exchange) colocation. Our Singapore servers sit at Equinix SG2 with ~2ms to SGX and ~28ms to Hong Kong’s HKEx. For crypto traders, Singapore’s proximity to major APAC exchange infrastructure (Bybit, OKX, and regional exchanges) and its regulatory clarity under the MAS framework make it the dominant location for Asia-based algorithmic trading. The Ryzen 9 9950X config in Singapore (€499/mo) delivers the same clock-speed advantage for MT5 and custom algo systems as the Frankfurt and New York equivalents, serving the Asian trading session (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney open) with consistent low latency.