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DXtrade VPS
DXtrade VPS —
a browser that never closes.
DXtrade runs in a browser, so what you are renting is a machine that keeps that browser open and logged in while yours is closed. One gigabyte a window, and the location matters more than the size.
- Chrome and Edge installed, set to reopen your tabs
- 42 cities — pick the one nearest your broker
- Windows Server licence included
What does a VPS do for a browser platform?
The platform itself is your broker's, running on their servers. What the VPS gives you is a session that stays open — logged in, charts loaded, and any bridge or bot alongside it still running at three in the morning.
One gigabyte,
one window.
A DXtrade session is a browser tab with a charting engine in it. At rest that is a couple of hundred megabytes; with a dozen charts and a few days of history it climbs. A gigabyte a window is the rule, and two windows for two broker accounts.
One broker account open in one browser window fits a gigabyte. Two accounts at two firms is two.
More memory rarely helps here. If you are keeping one session open and nothing else, the smallest plan is enough — and we would rather say so than sell you a bigger one.
Which one holds
your terminals.
Straight from the rule. If it turns out wrong we move you up free of charge — you will not be asked to buy a second month to find out.
The High Frequency plan holds the same three as the Best. What you pay the difference for is clock speed — a Ryzen 9 at 5.7 GHz rather than an EPYC core — which matters for a scalping EA and not at all for a swing strategy.
DXtrade is your
broker's software.
This is the thing that makes DXtrade different from MetaTrader, and it changes what you can expect from a VPS.
DXtrade
your broker runs it
- Deployed and configured by the broker, not by you
- What you see depends on which firm you opened with
- Nothing to install, and nothing to license
- No expert advisors — automation goes through their API if it exists
MetaTrader 5
you run it
- Installed on your machine and yours to configure
- The same terminal at every broker that offers it
- Expert advisors, indicators, a market to buy them in
- Heavier, and you carry the updates yourself
What you are renting,
and what you are not.
DXtrade is deployed by your broker
Unlike MetaTrader, DXtrade is not software you install. Your broker licenses it from Devexperts, configures which instruments and features are switched on, and serves it to you in a browser. Two firms running DXtrade can look and behave noticeably differently.
That matters when you read a guide or a forum post about it: half of what you find will describe a setup your broker has not enabled. It also means we cannot install it for you — there is nothing to install, only a login.
So a VPS keeps the session, not the platform
What the machine gives you is a browser that stays open and logged in while your own computer is off, on a connection that does not drop when your home wifi does. If you are running a bridge, a bot against the broker's API, or a copier alongside it, those run on the same machine and stay running too.
For a manual trader who closes the laptop at night, that is worth less than it is for somebody with something automated. Worth being honest about which of those you are before renting anything.
Automation goes through the broker, not the platform
DXtrade has no equivalent of an expert advisor. There is no scripting language inside it and nothing to compile. If you want a strategy running, it has to talk to your broker's API from outside — and that program is the thing that genuinely needs a machine which never sleeps.
Not every firm offering DXtrade exposes an API, and the ones that do vary in what they allow. Check before you build.
Location beats size on this one
A browser session and an API client do almost no work. What matters is that the machine sits close to the broker your orders are going to, and that it stays up.
Our broker pages carry the measured latency from each of our cities to each firm's servers. On this platform that figure is the one to choose on; the plan size barely enters into it.
Pick the city your broker sits in.
Not the one you live in. Your remote desktop session does not need to be fast; your orders do.
Any of them can be chosen at checkout, and changed later free of charge once a month. See what each broker answers in →
Before you spend anything.
The questions our support desk actually receives, answered plainly.
Still unsure which plan or which city? Send us your broker's account server name and we will measure it before you buy.
Platform compatibility
MT4 and MT5 are installed for you on request. The rest take a couple of minutes — you have full Administrator access to the machine.