I’ve been running my main trading bot on an InterServer VPS out of their Secaucus, NJ facility since March 2023. My measured round-trip latency to my broker’s NY4 datacenter is 4.2ms average (measured with `hping3` over 10,000 packets during market hours, 9:30-16:00 ET), and my bill is $12.00/month as of January 2025 — that’s the…
I’ve been running MetaTrader EAs and Python API bots since 2018, and I’ve wasted more money than I care to admit on the wrong boxes. My first “trading VPS” was a $3.50/month special I found on LowEndBox — I figured a server is a server, right? The EA ran, the bot connected, and I patted…
I started running MetaTrader Expert Advisors on a VPS in 2018 because I got tired of waking up to find my home internet had hiccuped during the London session and my EA had missed three valid setups. Back then I thought any cheap box would do. I was wrong in a way that cost me…
