our virtual hosting is VPS or VPN?

[dsmaniyan]

Currently our hosting service is on VPS or VPN, which service you are providing? 

[Sergey Golubev]

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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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[Sergey Golubev]

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies

Pros and cons of VPS at mql5.com

MetaQuotes Software Corp. , 2018.11.04 13:15

• Why do you need a VPS?

  And what is the value of fast execution?

• Why is our VPS better?

  What are the benefits of technological effectiveness?

• 24 hours free

  How to test a virtual platform in 24 hours?

• Available Rates

  You will receive computer resources on demand, and the rate is always the same.

• What are paid $ 10?

  And how quickly will they pay off due to better performance?

• How it works?

  Learn how to rent a Forex VPS and how to manage it.

And this is the information about ping - 

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Pros and cons of VPS at mql5.com

MetaQuotes Software Corp. , 2018.11.04 13:59

Enter the name of your broker's trading server to get an estimate of network delays: https://www.mql5.com/en/vps

[Lucas Brown]

First, you have to understand that VPS and VPNs are two different things, I have read a lot of thread where people are comparing VPN and VPS, so I recommend people to use VPN even they can use free VPN *** to understand how VPN work and how it is completely different from VPS.

[miltonhem Hempton]

Im new to VPN . im operating on windows X whats the best VPN for this OS?

[Sergey Golubev]

miltonhem Hempton:

Im new to VPN . im operating on windows X whats the best VPN for this OS?

Are you on Windows XP?
The best OS for Metatrader (and for MQL5 VPS) is Windows 10 64 bit (so, I am suggesting to change your computer or your OS from Windows XP to Windows 10 for example).

[William Roeder]

miltonhem Hempton: Im new to VPN . im operating on windows X whats the best VPN for this OS?

1. You can't be on Windows Xp.

   The MetaTrader platforms will no longer support Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista after 01 October 2017.
             Support for Windows XP / Windows 2003 / Windows Vista to be discontinued after 01 October 2017 - MetaTrader 5 - General - MQL5 programming forum 2017.06.01

   MetaTrader 5 build 1745 will be the last platform version supporting Microsoft Windows XP/2003/Vista
             New MetaTrader 5 Platform Build 1745 - Trading Strategies That Work - General - MQL5 programming forum 2018.01.11

   Since 1 January 2018: completely stop support of all operating systems, which are lower than Windows 7
             32-Bit vs. 64-Bit Operating Systems for MetaTrader5 2017.02.20

2. The n in VPN stands for network. You can use any VPN you want or none at all. That has nothing to do with this site or the terminal.
   
3. The s in VPS stands for server. Your OS is irrevalent as long as it runs the terminal.