VMHeaven

Forex VPS MetaTrader 4 and 5 on Windows, in Amsterdam or Frankfurt

A forex VPS is a Windows server that keeps MetaTrader and your Expert Advisors running while your own computer is off. At VMHeaven it is a KVM server with Windows Server 2022 or 2019 in Amsterdam from €4.99 a month, or in Frankfurt at its own, higher price. You install your broker's MT4 or MT5 terminal yourself and log in as Administrator over Remote Desktop.

  • Windows Server 2022 · 2019
  • MT4, MT5 or NinjaTrader — you install it
  • Amsterdam · Frankfurt
  • Always-on DDoS protection

From€4.99/mo

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Forex VPS

Windows for MetaTrader

Platform
MT4, MT5 or NinjaTrader — you install it
System
Windows Server 2022 / 2019
Login
Administrator over RDP
Licence
Evaluation · activate your own key
Locations
Amsterdam · Frankfurt
Runs
While your PC is off
Payment
Card, PayPal or crypto

01Why a VPS

Why run MetaTrader on a VPS?

An Expert Advisor trades only while its terminal is open and connected. A VPS keeps that terminal on a server instead of on your desk.

EAs only trade while the terminal runs

An Expert Advisor lives inside the MetaTrader terminal. When your PC sleeps, restarts for an update or loses its connection, the EA stops with it. On a VPS the terminal keeps running in a data centre while your own computer is switched off.

Administrator: any broker, several terminals

You are Administrator on your own Windows server, so you install the MT4 or MT5 build your broker provides — or several brokers' terminals side by side, each in its own folder.

A console and a reinstall when something breaks

If Remote Desktop stops answering, the VNC console in the panel still shows the screen. And if Windows itself is beyond repair, reinstall a clean Windows Server 2022 or 2019 from the panel, without a ticket.

VPS or MetaTrader's own hosting?

MetaTrader's built-in virtual hosting, rented from MetaQuotes inside the terminal, takes over the charts, Expert Advisors and signal subscriptions you migrate from one terminal. A VPS runs the whole terminal — or several — plus any other Windows software you need beside it. Both keep EAs running; pick the one that fits your setup.

02Location

Amsterdam or Frankfurt: which is closer to my broker?

We do not publish latency figures to any broker. The honest answer is a measurement you take yourself, in your own terminal.

  1. 01

    Find your broker's trade server

    Ask your broker's support where its live trade servers are hosted; some server names in the terminal's login dialog also hint at the region. Many brokers host in European financial data centres — check where yours is.

  2. 02

    Order the smallest plan for a month

    Pick the city that looks closer and its smallest plan on a one-month term. There is no contract, so if the other city measures better, order there instead.

  3. 03

    Read the ping in the terminal

    Log in to your trading account on the VPS. MT5 shows the ping to the trade server in the status bar; in MT4, click the connection indicator in the bottom right corner to see the ping of each access point.

  4. 04

    Compare and decide

    Take the same reading on your PC at home and, if you like, from the other city. Go by what the terminal shows, not by what a latency map promises.

Amsterdam and Frankfurt are close neighbours on the network; which one suits you depends on the route to your broker's servers. Each city in detail: Netherlands RDP and Germany RDP.

We have no location in London, New York or anywhere else outside Amsterdam and Frankfurt. If your broker's trade server is in London, a server in London will be closer to it than either of ours.

03Plans

Which plan do I need for MT4 or MT5?

Windows runs on every plan. Hi-CPU KVM puts AMD EPYC 7443 cores behind each plan for terminal work; Standard KVM gives more vCores and memory per euro for many terminals at once. The Frankfurt card shows what is in stock there today.

Hi-CPU KVM

For terminals and EAs
AMD EPYC 7443 · ECC

Fewer vCores per plan, on AMD EPYC 7443: a MetaTrader terminal and its Expert Advisors lean on one or two cores rather than many.

Amsterdam In stockFrankfurt Sold out
PlanvCoresRAMStorageAmsterdam
HI-CPU 112 GB ECC20 GB€4.99/mo
HI-CPU 224 GB ECC40 GBRecommended for Windows€9.99/mo
HI-CPU 336 GB ECC60 GB€14.99/mo
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Standard KVM

For many terminals
Intel · DDR4 ECC

Intel with DDR4 ECC and the most vCores and memory per euro — for several terminals with many charts open at once.

Amsterdam In stockFrankfurt Sold out
PlanvCoresRAMStorageAmsterdam
STANDARD KVM 124 GB DDR420 GB€4.99/mo
STANDARD KVM 248 GB DDR440 GB€9.99/mo
STANDARD KVM 3612 GB DDR460 GB€14.99/mo
All 9 Standard KVM plans

DMCA Ignored KVM

Frankfurt today
Intel · DDR4 ECC

What Frankfurt sells today: the Standard line's Intel hardware as DMCA Ignored KVM, priced as its own line. Its takedown policy changes nothing for a terminal — it is simply the Intel line in stock in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt In stock
PlanvCoresRAMStorageFrankfurt
DMCA KVM 124 GB DDR420 GB€8.99/mo
DMCA KVM 248 GB DDR440 GB€14.99/mo
DMCA KVM 3612 GB DDR460 GB€21.99/mo

Standard KVM · Hi-CPU KVMSold outTheir Frankfurt rows appear here again when stock reopens.

Frankfurt in detail: VPS in Germany.

All 9 DMCA Ignored KVM plans

Windows Server 2022 and 2019 run on every plan, the €4.99 one included. Updates, terminals and their downloaded price history fill a 20 GB disk quickly, so we recommend 40 GB or more.

Windows comes from our template on a time-limited evaluation licence; no licence is included in the price. Activate your own key whenever you like — Windows VPS covers licensing and administration.

Running more terminals than you started with? Upgrade from the panel, then extend the C: drive in Disk Management.

Pay by card, PayPal or in crypto — Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, Litecoin, Monero and more, at the same price. How a crypto payment settles is on the Crypto VPS page.

Trading with a Python script or a crypto-exchange bot instead of MetaTrader? That is usually a Linux job — Ubuntu VPS covers it.

0424/5

How do I keep MT4 and MT5 running 24/5?

Most interruptions on a trading VPS come from Windows itself: a restart after updates, a signed-out session. Five habits cover them.

Restart outside market hours

Depending on its update settings, Windows installs updates and restarts to finish them. Set active hours in Windows Update, or schedule installs with Group Policy, so restarts fall on the weekend, when the forex market is closed.

Disconnect, don't sign out

Close the Remote Desktop window to disconnect: your session and the terminal keep running. Signing out ends the session and closes every program in it, MetaTrader included.

Plan for the reboot

After a restart, nothing runs until the Administrator session exists again. Either reconnect over RDP after every planned restart, or set up automatic logon (Sysinternals Autologon, for example) and put the terminals in the Startup folder. Autologon leaves the desktop signed in for anyone who reaches the console — use a strong password and protect your panel login with two-factor authentication.

Check AutoTrading and the Journal

After every restart, open each terminal and check that AutoTrading (Algo Trading in MT5) is on, the EAs are still attached to their charts, and the Journal and Experts tabs show no errors.

Back up before you change anything

Before you update a terminal, an EA or its settings, create a backup in the panel: a snapshot of the whole disk, taken while the server keeps running. If the change goes wrong, restore it.

05Limits

What does a VPS not do for your trading?

A VPS keeps your terminal online. It does not make a strategy profitable, and we say so plainly.

No profit or execution guarantee

Whether an Expert Advisor makes money depends on the strategy and the market. Slippage and requotes come from the market and your broker's execution; we do not publish or guarantee latency to any broker.

We are not a broker

VMHeaven sells servers. We recommend no broker, Expert Advisor or signal provider, and nothing on this page is financial advice.

Trading involves risk of loss

Trading forex and CFDs involves risk of loss, and an EA follows its rules whether the market cooperates or not. Only trade with money you can afford to lose.

MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 are trademarks of MetaQuotes Ltd., NinjaTrader is a trademark of NinjaTrader Group, LLC. VMHeaven is not affiliated with either company.

06FAQ

Forex VPS: questions

Everything you need to know before deploying — and a human if you need more.

A forex VPS is a Windows server in a data centre that runs your MetaTrader terminal and Expert Advisors around the clock, so they keep trading while your own computer is off. At VMHeaven it is a KVM server with Windows Server 2022 or 2019 in Amsterdam from €4.99 a month, or in Frankfurt at its own, higher price. You connect over Remote Desktop as Administrator and install your broker's MT4 or MT5 yourself.

Only if the VPS stands closer to your broker's trade server than your own connection does. That depends on where the broker hosts it, and we do not publish or guarantee latency to any broker. Measure it: test the smallest plan for a month and read the ping in the terminal's connection indicator. Slippage and requotes come from the market and your broker's execution, not from the server.

Yes. You are Administrator on your own Windows server, so you can install MT4 and MT5 side by side, from one broker or several. Install each terminal into its own folder, and each one runs separately with its own login, charts and Expert Advisors.

Yes. NinjaTrader 8 is Windows software, and its published requirements name Windows Server 2016 or later (64-bit) with .NET Framework 4.8 — both Windows Server 2022 and 2019 qualify; 2022 ships with .NET 4.8, and on 2019 you install it first. You download and install NinjaTrader yourself, as you would MetaTrader. It needs at least 2 GB of memory and recommends a quad-core processor with 8 GB, so for daily use pick a plan with four vCores and 8 GB or more — on Standard KVM from €9.99 a month in Amsterdam. The VPS has no graphics card, which NinjaTrader recommends: Windows draws the charts in software, so many open charts cost CPU. Size up if you run several workspaces.

Standard KVM, which gives you the most memory per euro — and memory is usually what runs out first. How many terminals fit depends on the charts, indicators and Expert Advisors each one carries, so we do not put a number on it: start small, open Task Manager with everything running and watch the memory. When it gets tight, upgrade from the panel.

One terminal with one Expert Advisor runs on every plan, the €4.99 one included. For daily use we recommend the Hi-CPU plan with 40 GB at €9.99, because Windows updates and MetaTrader's price history fill a 20 GB disk quickly. If you add terminals later, upgrade from the panel.

No. The server is unmanaged: once Windows has finished its first start, which takes a few minutes longer than a Linux image, connect over Remote Desktop, download MT4 or MT5 from your broker's website and install it as you would on your PC. We look after the hardware, the network and DDoS protection; terminals, accounts and EAs are yours to set up.

They can. Depending on its update settings, Windows restarts to finish installing updates, and afterwards your terminal stays closed until the Administrator session is back. Set active hours or schedule updates for the weekend, when the forex market is closed, and reconnect over RDP after a restart — or set up automatic logon with your terminals in the Startup folder.

Yes — by card, PayPal or in crypto: Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, Litecoin, Monero and more, through Cryptomus. The price is the same for every payment method, and sign-up asks for an e-mail address, a name and a postal address, never an ID document.

07Use cases & related

Related plans and guides

Other servers we run for neighbouring jobs, each with its starting price, and three guides worth reading before you order.

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GuidesFrom the VMHeaven blog

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