Forex VPS for MetaTrader and Expert Advisors

A Windows machine hosted in a data center that runs your trading platform day and night, so charts and Expert Advisors keep working while your own computer is off.

Yes, or another Windows trading platform. We offer four Windows Server versions: 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. Check your platform’s system requirements and pick a version it supports when you order.

No. We set up the server with Windows Server and the license; you install your trading platform from your broker or its developer and manage it yourself.

Yes. Closing the Remote Desktop window only disconnects you, and your terminals keep running on the server. Signing out of Windows closes your programs, and so does a restart, for example after Windows updates: after one, connect again and start your platform.

An Expert Advisor only trades while its terminal is running and connected to your broker’s trade server. The forex market trades around the clock on weekdays, so a home computer that sleeps, loses power or drops its connection leaves the EA idle while prices move. In MetaTrader 5, trailing stops also run in the terminal, so they stop moving when it is off; Stop Loss and Take Profit orders stay on the broker’s server.

It depends on the distance and the network route to your broker’s trade server. Our servers are in the Netherlands, and we don’t promise a latency to any broker. Before you order, ask your broker for its trade server address and run a ping or traceroute to it from the looking glass on our data center page. After setup, watch the connection indicator in your platform’s status bar.

Size it by what you run: every terminal, chart and Expert Advisor uses memory and processor time. WV1 (2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM) is the smallest plan. Choose more RAM for several terminals, and move up later as you add more.

As many as the plan’s memory and processor allow. MetaTrader can’t run two copies from the same folder, so install each terminal in a folder of its own. In MetaTrader 5, each chart runs one Expert Advisor, and the Task Manager (F2) shows the memory each chart uses and the processor time each EA takes.

At the weekend, while the forex market is closed. An update restart closes your terminals until you connect again and start them. In Windows Update you can set active hours, outside which automatic restarts happen, or install updates yourself. MetaTrader shows your broker’s trading sessions in each symbol’s specification.

Replace the password we send with a long, unique one, and make sure Network Level Authentication is on for Remote Desktop. Run Expert Advisors only from sources you trust, and leave DLL imports off unless you are sure the program is safe.

No. The Windows Server license is included in every plan’s price, so there is no separate license to buy.

No. Our VPS plans share the host’s processor and memory between virtual machines under our fair usage policy, and that keeps prices low. For long backtests or optimizations that keep the processor busy for hours, a hybrid server reserves CPU cores and RAM for you alone.

Technical support is handled by ticket, 24/7/365, and you get a first reply within 1 hour.

Card, PayPal, bank transfer, or one of more than 50 cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Monero.

You have 48 hours from your order to cancel with a refund, time enough to test the connection to your broker. Crypto payments are never refunded, by their nature, and neither are payments for control-panel licenses, domains or Add Funds account credit. After 48 hours there is no refund, but you can still cancel in the client area at any billing cycle: do it no later than 4 days before the renewal date. The Terms of Service set out both rules in sections 3.3 and 7.3.

No. LyraHosting provides the server only. We don’t provide trading advice, signals or software, and trading carries risk.