Forex Dedicated Server: Reserved Cores for Latency-Sensitive EAs

Shared Forex VPS or Forex VPS Pro: which do you need?

Both tiers are the same Windows server on the same HA cluster in the same four cities, with the same latency to your broker. The difference is whether the CPU is shared or reserved, and what comes with the reservation.

A plain rule: if a delay of a few milliseconds on one tick would change your result, or if you run more than a handful of terminals, or if you backtest on the same server that trades, take the Pro tier. If your EAs hold trades for hours and days, the shared tier gives the same fills for a third of the price. The dedicated versus shared guide walks through the cases with examples.

Is Forex VPS Pro a bare-metal server?

No, and the distinction matters. Forex VPS Pro is a virtual server with CPU cores reserved for it, which gives you the isolation that matters for trading, dedicated compute, without the cost and the single point of failure of one physical machine. Because it is a VM on an HA cluster, it restarts on another node when hardware fails, which a bare-metal server cannot do. If you need a whole physical machine, with no hypervisor between your terminals and the CPU, we offer bare-metal trading servers inside Equinix London, described below.

Bare-metal trading servers in Equinix London, LD4 and LD7

The full page, with the broker list for the campus and a comparison against both VPS tiers, is at bare metal trading server London.

For desks that want a whole physical machine, MassiveGRID offers Dell PowerEdge bare-metal servers installed inside the Equinix London campus in Slough, in the LD4 and LD7 buildings, the campus where FxPro, Admirals, Darwinex and ThinkMarkets publish their LD4 servers and BlackBull and IC Markets' cTrader publish LD5. Brokers with infrastructure in London are under 1 ms away. There is no hypervisor and no neighbour: every core, every byte of memory and the whole 10 Gbit network port belong to one customer. Memory and storage are configured to order, Windows Server (licence included) or Linux is installed to order, and the server is quoted and provisioned by our sales team rather than through the configurator, so contact us with the model and the terminal count you have in mind.

From a range of more than sixty configurations we have picked the six below for trading, one per use case. Model names encode the core count and base clock, so TS8-3.2 is eight cores at 3.2 GHz, and the CPU column names the processor and Dell PowerEdge platform. The selection criteria were two: clock speed first, because a MetaTrader terminal runs each chart on one thread and a scalping EA is bounded by single-core speed, and then the core count, memory and NVMe that a desk or a research workload needs. Prices are monthly, in US dollars, for the base configuration with the Windows Server licence included; a larger memory or NVMe build is quoted on request.

Which bare-metal server for which trader

• TS4-3.1, the first bare-metal server. A current-generation quad core with 32 GB for traders who have outgrown a VPS, run two to six terminals and want the whole machine for less than a basic Beeks plan. Its 3.1 GHz base clock is the lowest here, so scalpers should look one row down. Request a quote for the TS4-3.1.
• TS4-4.0, the scalping box. The E-2274G has the highest base clock in the range at 4.0 GHz and turbos to 4.9 GHz, which is what a tick-driven EA actually uses. Four threads limit it to a handful of terminals; take it with 32 GB. Request a quote for the TS4-4.0.
• TS8-3.2, the desk workhorse. Eight cores and sixteen threads on the newest Intel generation, with a 5.6 GHz turbo, run 10 to 20 terminals with copiers and heavy templates and still leave headroom for an optimisation. For most prop traders and small funds this is the one. Request a quote for the TS8-3.2.
• TS24-3.3, the backtesting machine. Two Gold 6246 processors give 48 threads at 3.3 GHz base, so the MT5 Strategy Tester runs 40-odd agents while the live terminals keep the rest, on one server. The dual-socket layout suits throughput more than a single-thread sprint; pair it with the TS4-4.0 if you also scalp. Request a quote for the TS24-3.3.
• TS16-3.5, the fund desk. AMD's frequency-optimised 16-core EPYC with 64 GB and NVMe for desks that run dozens of client accounts, keep tick databases and run Python research alongside the terminals. Request a quote for the TS16-3.5.
• TS24-4.1, the institutional choice. The EPYC 9275F pairs the fastest base clock on the list, 4.1 GHz, with 24 cores and NVMe-only storage. Live trading, optimisation and machine-learning research on one machine, for desks where the server budget is small next to the capital it protects. Request a quote for the TS24-4.1.

How ordering works

1. Contact our sales team with the model, the memory and storage you want, the operating system, and whether you need LD4 or LD7 (ask your broker which building its servers are in; both are in the same Slough campus).
2. We confirm availability and quote the configuration. The Windows Server licence is included in the price.
3. The server is provisioned with your operating system, and you receive the access details and a dedicated IP address.
4. Install your terminals one folder per account as on any Windows server; the MT4 and MT5 pages cover sizing and setup.

Two honest notes. Bare metal is a single physical machine: it does not restart on another node when hardware fails the way Forex VPS Pro does on the HA cluster, so desks that need both raw speed and failover usually keep a Pro VPS as the warm standby. And the prices above start at the base configuration; the 15-day money-back guarantee applies to the VPS tiers, while bare-metal terms are set in the quote.