Chapter I · Origin

It started with a broken router, a margin call, and one Friday night in Camden.

October 5th, 2022. First Friday of the month — NFP. Non-Farm Payrolls. The single most volatile hour in foreign exchange. I had a EURUSD short open at 1.3047 with a 22-pip stop, sitting on my home PC running MetaTrader 4 over a domestic Virgin Media connection that, until that night, had never given me trouble.

At 13:31 UTC the dollar broke higher. My short started running against me, fast. At 13:33 the EA tried to close. At 13:34 my router blinked red. By 13:38 I was back online, refreshing the platform, watching the position that should have closed at –22 pips show open at –180. I had lost a month of work in four minutes, because my home internet had hiccupped during a single news release.

That weekend I bought my first VPS. Forty-nine dollars a month on a provider whose name I will not say but whose marketing claimed “sub-millisecond execution to all major brokers.” On the Monday I ran a ping test. The result, against IC Markets London, was forty-two milliseconds — worse than my home connection. The provider's support insisted this was “normal for shared infrastructure.”

I realised every review I'd read recommending that VPS had been written by someone who'd been paid to. Nobody had pinged it. Nobody had run an EA on it. They'd all just quoted the marketing.
— Marcus Delgado, October 2022

A bad VPS, an angry trader, a Google spreadsheet

The next week I bought a second VPS, then a third. By December I had nine of them open, and a Google spreadsheet I was emailing to anyone on ForexFactory who DM'd me asking which one to use. The spreadsheet had three columns at first: provider, monthly cost, median ping to IC Markets LD4 over 48 samples . It grew. By March 2023 it had twelve columns and an MT4 EA stress-test rig running in the background of every machine.

By summer the spreadsheet had a domain. tradingvpshub.com . I picked the name in twenty minutes because it was the only thing under twelve dollars on Namecheap that wasn't already taken. The first article was 480 words, badly formatted, and titled “Why your forex VPS is lying about its ping.” It got 11,200 views in a week. That was the moment I understood the gap.

Marginalia · April 2023
The first version of this site ran on a $4/mo shared host that crashed every time NFP traffic spiked. I had to migrate it onto — yes — a forex VPS. The irony was not lost on me.

Why we still write it ourselves, fourteen years later

By 2022 the offers started arriving. A major VPS vendor offered $12,000 to “move them above Quant VPS in the rankings.” I said no. A larger one offered $40,000 for the same thing in 2023. Said no again. In 2022 an investment firm offered to buy the site for an amount I won't print here — they wanted to keep writing under the same byline, but feed copy through a content team. I said no, and a contract clause that's still in our editorial standards came out of that meeting: no review on TradingVPSHub will ever be written by anyone who has not personally tested the product.

That clause is the reason the team is still four people. It's the reason we publish only six to nine new reviews a year. It's the reason every coupon on this site is one I've personally redeemed at the till. It's also the reason — and this matters — every link is honestly affiliate-tagged. We earn a commission when a reader buys through us. That commission funds the next test rig, the next colocation lease, and the salaries of the three people who help me run the desk. It does not, ever, change what we say.

What the site is — and what it isn't

TradingVPSHub is a one-room editorial trader's notebook, written by people who still trade live, indexed by Google, and read by two hundred thousand traders a month. It is not a content farm. It is not an affiliate aggregator. It is not “the top 10 best VPS providers of 2026” written by a freelancer in Manila who has never opened a trading platform. We are the site I wish existed the Saturday morning after I lost that $1,800. We hope you find it useful. If you don't, please write — the address is at the bottom of the page.

— Marcus Delgado, London · April 2026