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I have no personal experience with this company however the CEO of ForexVPS Jeff got in touch with Mark and agreed to conduct an interview. So as an exception this time I post our interview instead of review here. I hope it will be helpful for you.

Jeff, please tell us more about your company? Are you regulated? Where are the servers located? When did you start to work online? Is it reliable?

ForexVPS was started by a group of seasoned veterans in the hosting industry that saw a need for Forex traders around the world to have a hosting service that catered specifically to their needs only ... and so ForexVPS was born. ForexVPS allows Forex Traders to do what they do best: make Forex Trades. We wanted to give Forex Trader a reliable platform they could access 24 hours a day without having to worry about the technology. ForexVPS is not a broker or an IB, so we have no need to be regulated. We are totally independent. Our servers are located in Atlanta, USA (Georgia State). We actually own this data enter, we are not resellers unlike a lot of hosting companies. We have been in business for 2 years.

Do you provide preinstalled metatraders?

Yes, we do provide metatrader preinstalled and more than 30 other choices available from our download area. More are being added as we learn of them or on request of customers

What are the advantages of using your service?

The advantages of using our services are:
(a) 99.99% uptime (That is 53 minutes downtime a year) (most only offer 99.9% uptime, which is 8.8 hours of downtime in a year)
(b) Freedom to install any EA and the ability to use any choice of broker.
(c) Access to an in house MetaTrader expert.
(d) Very low latency to brokers (8 ms to ItradeFX for example, compared to 130 ms if you used a home broadband connection.) Lower latency means orders get to the broker faster.
(e) 24/7 support via email and live chat. All staff are trained in MetaTrader and can help with EA's etc
(f) You can run as many platforms and EA's as you wish. The only limit on how much memory is chosen. For example no point installing 9 metatraders on the $35 plan as it would run out of memory, but if the Ultimate plan was chosen that will not be an issue.

Why is your service so expensive comparing to other similar services?

We are not expensive compared to other services. Our prices start from $35 a month.Here are some prices for the competition for similar services: Forex Hoster - $69.95; Commercial Network Services - $65 Most people are not aware, but a lot of companies oversell their host server (a host server is used to hold all the VPS's). A typical example is buying a Host Server with a low amount of RAM and stuffing say 40 VPS's on each Host Server. Assuming each VPS is "sold" with 512 RAM. The host server requires a minimum of 20 GB ram to guarantee each VPS gets 512 ram. A lot of companies cheat by only getting a server with 10 GB ram and still put 40 VPS on each server, therefore people who buy the VPS really only get half of what they paid for, although they might not be aware of it. As you can guess, this means a significant performance hit. ForexVPS does not do that.

Another example is buying a host server with low speciation processor's and if one person uses a lot of CPU time everyone else's VPS will be "slow". ForexVPS only puts 20 VPS's on each server, guaranteeing everybody exactly what they pay for, and the ability to upgrade without affecting anybody else. With ForexVPS here is the minimum specification of each of our Hardware Server's for VPS's:
(a) Intel Xeon X5460 Harpertown 3.16GHz LGA 771 120W Quad-Core Processor (we got 4 of these Intel Xeon X5460 in each server, so that is equivalent to 16 processors in each server)
(b) 64 GB memory in each server. Since we only put a maximum of 20 VPS's on each server, everybody is guaranteed the resources they pay for, plus there is capacity for each VPS to upgrade on demand up to 3100 MB memory each without downtime or overselling.
(c) 8 X SATA II discs in a RAID config (stripped and mirrored)
(d) Daily backups (clients can make their own backups whenever they like as well as our own backups)

What are the benefits for the forex trader of using your service? Do you have many forex traders?

The benefits to forex traders are the ultra low latency to brokers MT4 servers, resulting in orders getting placed quicker. Very low latency to brokers (8 ms to ItradeFX for example, compared to 130 ms if you used a broadband connection.) Lower latency means orders get to the broker faster. 99.99% uptime Freedom to install any EA and the ability to use any choice of broker. Access to an in house MetaTrader expert. 24/7 support via email and live chat. All staff are trained in MetaTrader and can help with EA's etc Forex Traders can install as many MetaTraders as they see fit. Access from any computer in the world (even the BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile)
Yes, we do have a good few thousand forex traders and we are getting more every single day. Most of our business actually comes as a referral from exiting satisfied customers.

How many metatraders can one install per vps?

People can install as many metatraders as they like up to the limit of the memory they chose for each plan.

Update April 2009 I have read Forex VPS has made cooperation with fapturbo guys - now they offer 25% discount to fapturbo clients. the code is fapturbo25 . Also their support staff will install and update Fapturbo for clients, free of charge - good news to all fapturbo traders!

ForexHoster is a well known Forex VPS service, that is a partner of popular EA called FAPTurbo. Everyone heard they got overloaded by the orders first month and the support was bit slow however I heard all the problems were solved and they are back on track again.

ForexHoster offers you a preinstalled Metatratrater platform from the broker of your choice, Connector tool for server access and easy uploading interface for your robots

ForexHoster also has clickbank refund guarantee so you won't get scammed here for sure.

Another good advantage - if you are Fapturbo trader they can help you pretty well with the setup and activations.

Update July 2009 Forex hoster has introduced new Web based control panel and lots of new features - you can check them out here .

EzForexHost is a pretty new VPS service that was developed as a first class solution for a forex trader. Their main attention was a proper support: you get have 2 options here: telephone support and Live chat support that can help you get started and even provide the help with EA uploading.

Here you get a Pre-installed Metatrader Forex VPS from your broker of choice and connect to it using the Connector tool + user friendly uploading interface. You can also request to install additional metatraders for your subscription

The main advantage of this service is: it was developed especially for forex traders - so they know your needs very well. You don't have to configure the server, setup firewalls, install additional software and things like that. That is a huge benefit for forex traders who are not a computer pro and don't like to waste time configuring the server settings etc.

Another good point: they are selling the service via clickbank - so you can earn additional 30% commission by referring to the friends + get a proper refund guaranteed by clickbank in case not satisfied with the service

SWVPS is a traditional VPS based on windows server 2003 (or Linux). You get only a raw server and have to install everything yourself here. You get access by the Remote desktop tool. You have to upload, update, activate your robots yourself, install metatraders, configure firewalls and all these hassles...

However such services are rather cheap and you can install several metatraders on one VPS or use your VPS for other purposes too like site hosting. SWVPS is a perfect solution for computer professionals like me - you have unlimited freedom here.

The only bad thing I can mention here - they offer VPS for different purposes and many people use them to host websites. And if someone's website gets under a hacker DDOS attack your whole trading server can go down with it as well... (that happed once for me). Also their servers go down and restart pretty often so make sure you double check your trading every hour or so.

I have no personal experience with this company however the CEO of Zuit VPS Tom Berchenbriter got in touch with Mark and agreed to conduct an interview. So as an exception this time I post our interview instead of review here. I hope it will be helpful for you.

Tom, please tell us more about your company? Where are the servers located? When did you start to work online? Is it reliable?

Our servers are located in Los Angeles Data Center's, We currently have 2 datacenter's and have plans to further expand. We have been hosting for 3 years now, and have offered forex specific services for the past 10 months.

Do you provide support with the EA installation? Do you support Fapturbo?

Yes, we support professional support of any kind on our server platform, Our support includes installation and troubleshooting of any services that the customer needs in regaurds to FOREX or our VPS platform. FAPTURBO is supported!

Do you offer preinstalled metatraders?

Our Server Platform comes pre-installed with Metatrader with brokerage of the customer's choice, as well as expert advisors when the Customer purchases Professional or Ultimate Edition of our Platform pre-installed..

What are the benefits for the forex trader of using your service? Do you have many forex traders?

Currently we have 50 FOREX trading customers, we are somewhat new to this market, I feel that we are offering a better platform than the other providers out there that are offering hosting, Our servers are hosted under VMWare with server class machines and in a redundant shared storage configuration to ensure maximum availablility. We also offer professional services included in our monthly fee, and we are offering more and more tools everyday to help all of our customers to be successful in the FOREX market. We have done a lot of homework in this market, and our services are being offered at a lower price than anybody out there, and the customer experience is also better, the customers are getting more services with our offerings than anybody else out there.

I got introduced to EasyCGI by the Silicon forex (which turned out into the scam) and got a free month there. In total I used this service for 4 months and had nothing but troubles with them

After few weeks of good work my server went down and only reply I got was "We are in the process of moving the data from the old servers and upgrading it. It may be another 24 - 36 hours before all containers are back online.. These "24-36hours" in reality lasted nearly 2 weeks. Imagine such a huge delay for a forex trader.

After they finally fixed the servers I was happy again for some time until one day I failed to connect to VPS and the staff did nothing to help for nearly 5 days in a row. Imagine a frustrated trader that cant access his platforms trading real money. After that I got fed up with their crappy service and went away forever.