Accessing MQL5 VPS with same configuration from multiple devices

[Nicolas Kokel]

I have subscribed to MQL5 VPS from my labtop on which I have set up my MT4 platform with multiple windows and custom indicators.
Now I want to access the VPS from a desktop on which my local MT4 platform has a different setup.
Can I access the VPS from this second machine and copy the VPS platform configuration that I have set up on the laptop?

Thank you.

[Sergey Golubev]

I do not have MQL5 VPS now (so, I do not have my personal experience). But as far as I know - MQL5 VPS is for trading account (it is not per computer and it is not per Metatrader). I think - yes, you can.

[Nicolas Kokel]

My question is actually if there is a reverse synchronisation option from the VPS server to the platform so that I can use the same setup on multiple machines?
As far as I can see from the platform option and understand from the tutorials it is only possible to synchronize from the local platform to the VPS but the reverse is not possible.

[Sergey Golubev]

Yes, synchronize from the local computer (laptop, or desktop), and check everything in VPS logs (Virtual Platform Logs).

[Nicolas Kokel]

Sergey Golubev:
Yes, synchronize from the local computer (laptop, or desktop), and check everything in VPS logs ( Virtual Platform Logs).

Does this not mean from another new computer I will overwrite the server data with the configuration from that computer?

What steps should be undertaken to copy my VPS configuration to this other computer and not the opposite?

[Sergey Golubev]

Nicolas Kokel:

Does this not mean from another new computer I will overwrite the server data with the configuration from that computer?

What steps should be undertaken to copy my VPS configuration to this other computer and not the opposite?

MQL5 VPS is the copy of your Metatrader in cloud. And you are making the synchronization by migration of your opened charts with EAs attached, with signal subcription (if you have signal subscription). If you are making the synchronization/migration so you are changing something ( if you do not make synchronization again so it means that you are not changing the configuration of VPS; if you want to change something - you should make a synchronization once again).

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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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VPS in MT5

MetaQuotes Software Corp. , 2019.11.25 09:50

VPS is also not supported in 32 bit versions of MetaTrader 5.

and read this thread about synchronization: How to update/adjust EAs that are hosted on a VPS?