Maximizing Forex Trading Benefits With A Vps

By Author: Cecil Tracey
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ForexVPS has opened a new datacenter in London, providing forex traders with the choice of using virtual private servers (VPS) in either England or the United States. This new datacenter is connected to the London Internet Exchange, one of the largest internet exchange points in the world. While offering the same service and packages as the American datacenter, London's servers provide a lower latency for brokers in the UK and Europe.

The London datacenter is a state of the art facility offering energy efficient climate controls, multiple-redundant power options, and biometric building security. Preventing the possibility of legacy hardware, the server cabinets have allow server swaps without shutting down and have category 6 cabling.

ForexVPS is a VPS provider for forex traders. A VPS is a form of partitioning a physical server into multiple servers; each with the same capabilities as a dedicated machine. Forex (foreign exchange market) Traders are brokers who buy and sell currencies.

All of ForexVPS's servers are run on Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon CPUs; have 24GB+ RAM and RAID arrays; and they offer ...
... free daily backups. The servers run Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition 64bit and are forex ready, meaning they come preinstalled with MetaTrader4 (clients are allowed to install other trading programs).

MetaTrader4 is an application provided by MetaQuotes Software Corporation (www.metaquotes.net). MetaQuotes was founded in 2000 and is a source of industrial software for financial markets. MetaTrader4 is the most popular trading platform in the forex industry. Originally designed exclusively for forex trading, it now has functions for dealing with forex, CFD, Oil, Gold, Silver and Futures markets.

Having all the essential components for brokerage services over the internet (includes back office and dealing desk); MetaTrader4 presents an array of advantages for forex brokers. MetaTrader4 covers almost all financial markets and allows a multi-currency basis (any currency can serve as a general currency in the operation of the application). The program supports several thousand brokers on one server through its data transfer and processing protocols.

Reliable and safe, MetaTrader4 has backup and synchronized restoration systems, and is encrypted by 128bit keys. It is multi-lingual and its API (application program interface) allows for customization to meet various needs (i.e. additional analysers, integration into other systems, system work control mechanisms). MetaTrader4 offers real-time publishing and MetaQuotes Language4, an application that utilizes Expert Advisors.

Expert Advisors make the trade process control automated. It is a mechanical trade system linked to a specific plot. The advisor can inform brokers about a possible bargains and makes deals automatically.

ForexVPS offers three levels of access to their server environment. The Starter Desktop package starts at $35 per month ($55 for the UK servers) and provides the client with a VPS that has 768 MB RAM, 10GB hard drive space, and 500GB bandwidth.

The Professional Desktop package starts at $65 per month ($85 for the UK servers) and allots the client 1536 MB RAM, 20GB hard disk space, and 1000GB bandwidth.

The Ultimate Desktop package starts at $115 per month ($135 for the UK servers) and endows the client with 3072 MB RAM, 40GB disk space, and 2000GB bandwidth.

All VPSs come with Windows 2003 Server Enterprise and are forex ready. All packages have 24/7 access from Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Offering free technical support and installation assistance, the servers can be used by any broker.