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What Is a VPS

A VPS is a slice of a computer in a data centre, rented by the month, on which your trading platform runs logged in around the clock, so that programs on the charts keep working when your own machine is off and sit close to the broker's server. This paper shows you the VPS in five lines; the idea as a bakery oven lit at three in the morning; the two distances to the broker in milliseconds; the same night on a laptop that sleeps and on a VPS that does not; and Register a Virtual Server and Migrate on your platform.

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8
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Saman Rahbar

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A VPS, in five lines

A VPS, a virtual private server, is a slice of a computer in a data centre rented by the month. Your MetaTrader runs on it, logged in, with its Expert Advisors on the charts, where an Expert Advisor is a program that trades by written rules. It exists because it never sleeps, never loses the wifi, and sits near the broker's server. You reach it by remote desktop from your own computer or phone and see its screen. It is not a faster broker or a better program: it is the same platform, running somewhere that does not close when your laptop does.

A bakery oven at three in the morning

Picture a bakery at three in the morning. The shop is shut, the shutters are down and the baker went home hours ago, and the oven is lit and working, because the bread does not need the baker in the room once the dough is in. A VPS is that oven. The platform is put on it during the day, with its programs on the charts, and it bakes through the night and the weekend while the laptop is shut, the wifi is off and the person is asleep.

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