Most retail brokers match orders in the Equinix NY4 (New York) or LD4 (London) facilities. A VPS in the same campus executes in about a millisecond. One on the wrong continent adds slippage on every fast entry.
The shortlist
| Provider | From | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| ForexVPS.net | ~$28/mo | Trading-specific: NY4/LD4 presence, volatility scaling, no market-hours reboots |
| FXVM | ~$17/mo | Cheaper trading-focused option, one-click MetaTrader |
| Beeks | ~£31/mo | Colocation inside the exchange halls, 99.99% SLA in writing |
| Cloudzy | ~$6.95/mo | Cheapest that works: NVMe, ~1 ms to NY and London, general VPS |
How to choose
If you scalp or trade the news, pay for a trading-specific host in the broker's data centre with the volatility and uptime guarantees. If you run one or two swing EAs on a budget, a general VPS like Cloudzy near New York and London is enough. Always run your real EA setup on a monthly plan first and measure the ping to your broker and the memory use over a news day.
Sizing
- 1 to 2 MT4 charts, one or two EAs: 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU
- 3 to 6 charts or a light MT5 setup: 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU
- Several MT5 terminals or heavy backtesting: 4 GB RAM or more
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The provider's advertised latency and your measured latency to your specific broker are often different numbers. Take a monthly plan, install your EA, and ping the broker's server yourself before you commit to a year.
Prices checked September 2026. Hosting prices change often and vary by region and term. Confirm the current number on the provider's own site before you buy. Where we could not verify a figure we left it out.