MT5 closing on vps - how do you handle this? - page 2
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I have been using headless linux VPS. Those are much cheaper and flexible. Albeit, aren't user-friendly or that easy to setup. However, once the setup is done, it's actually the most reliable one atleast for me
mt5 is a gui application, how did you manage to get that working? I tried for myself but got so many issues along the way, and decided to stop trying.
It's through a docker image. You can find more details on the author's github page.
I’ve been running EAs for a while and it’s crazy how much time we spend backtesting while ignoring the infrastructure.
Last week a silent windows update on my vps killed my mt5 right before a volatility spike since the terminal was offline my trailing stops didn't trigger and i took a loss that
shouldn't have happened. it's frustrating when the strategy is fine but the uptime fails.
Curious to hear from the veterans here... how do you actually ensure your terminal stays open 24/7?
Do you just trust your vps provider or do you use some kind of watchdog/monitoring setup?
Personally i don't think windows auto-restart is reliable enough for real capital. I’ve been working on a custom monitoring logic to force-restart the process if it hangs, but i’d love to know if there’s a "standard" way to handle these technical glitches.
What’s your setup for 100% uptime?
That’s a really good point, infrastructure is something I feel gets underestimated a lot until it actually fails.
Personally, I’m not using the built-in MetaTrader VPS but an external Windows VPS provider, and so far I haven’t really run into issues like that. It’s been pretty stable in my case.