Can the Metaquotes VPS crash ?

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Hi

i found interesting the VPS kind that Metaquotes offers;

i think because of its nature it cannot crash but i wanna have an opinion of people who used it regularly.

also i think it doesn't need reboots or updates ?

thanks for help

Jeff

 
to make in shorter:

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Sergey Golubev, 2018.11.24 18:01

VPS is the copy of your Metatrader in the cloud.
To make this copy of your Metatrader in cloud so you need to open chart (or charts) and attach your EA to the chart (or to the charts) to ready to trade.
After that - you make the migration: you are synchronizing your Metatrader with open charts with EA attached to the charts - with the copy of your Metatrader in the cloud.

Once you synchronized (once you sent everything to VPS) so you can close your pc (in you want): your EA will work on VPS (means: your EA will work on the copy of your Metatrader in cloud).

And all those actions (with possibe errors) are written in your VPS log files (you can check it inside your home Metatrader).

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To make it shorter:

  • Your MQL5 VPS = your "2nd Metatrader in cloud". I mean: there is the cloud (somewhere). And there is "your second Metatrader" there ... this "second Metatrader in cloud" is empty ... you will need to provide migration/synchronize.
  • Migration = sending your EAs/indicators/open charts from your home Metatrader to MQL5 VPS (to "your Metatrader in cloud").
  • You can synchronize the settings/open charts/EAs/settings of your EAs/changing the settings of your EA/opened charts - from your home Metatrader with MQL5 VPS (with "your Metatrader in cloud"). You can synchronize many time (as many as you want).
  • Only open chart(s) with attached EA(s) can be migrated (can be synchronized) from your home Metatrader to MQL5 VPS (to "your Metatrader in cloud").
  • Your EA(s) will work on MQL5 VPS (on "your 2nd Metatrader in cloud"), and you can close your home Metatrader, or use your home Metatrader with the other trading account, or any.
  • Autotrading is always On in MQL5 VPS ("your second Metatrader in cloud" is having autotrading to be always ON irrespective of the settings of your home Metatrader).
  • (limitation) Your EA will not work on MQL5 VPS (on "your 2nd Metatrader in cloud") if EA is using dll irrespective off -  you allowed dll or not in your home Metatrader (irrespective of the settings of your home Metatrader). It is necessary to see the code or to be a coder to know: your EA is using/calling dll or not).
  • (limitation) It must be 64-bit client terminal (MT5) to use virtual hosting - means: your home Metatrader 5 should be 64-bit.
    MT4 does not have this limitation (because MT4 is always on 32-bit).

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Jean Francois Le Bas:

Hi

i found interesting the VPS kind that Metaquotes offers;

i think because of its nature it cannot crash but i wanna have an opinion of people who used it regularly.

also i think it doesn't need reboots or updates ?

thanks for help

Jeff


In some rare cases MQL5 VPS may stop functioning, but we are talking about an incident every 1-2 years.

This is the case for most if not all VPS services though, that's why they all guarantee a 99.9% uptime.

As for reboots and updates, these are all done automatically with MQL5 VPS.

 

Just some important information and the changes related to Virtual Hosting 

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Sergey Golubev, 2019.07.16 19:31

and, please, find some information which you should know (just in case you missed something there) - 

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1. How to subscribe to VPS (step by step instruction) - #4  

2. VPS log files to check the possible issue - Virtual Platform logs

2. latency/ping - small thread (it is related to your image) 

3. how to check MQL5 VPS (how to monitor) - post #1

4. Synchronize - the thread (you really need it)

5. explanation about MQL5 VPS in KISS way (just to make it shorter) - post #6 

6. this is the post #872 where I collected many news and particularities (I hope you do not need it) 

7. you can move your VPS subscription from one account to another - post #2


 
and the last information which I found (for newbies) -

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Pros and cons of VPS at mql5.com

MetaQuotes Software Corp. , 2018.11.04 13:15


 

thanks for your answers

it's not clear though if the VPS restarts the EAs automatically after a crash ?

Jeff

 
Jean Francois Le Bas:

thanks for your answers

it's not clear though if the VPS restarts the EAs automatically after a crash ?

Jeff

Once in my multi year experience with MQL5 VPS, I had found my server stopped and my EA not functioning in the morning.

I had to synchronize again my charts and attached EAs with my MQL5 VPS server in order to resume their work.

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