Don't lose a funded account to a dropped connection.
A single ISP hiccup, Windows reboot, or laptop crash during an open trade can violate a max-daily-loss rule and end a $100k+ evaluation. Your challenge doesn't care that it wasn't your fault. Put your platform on infrastructure that stays online through the entire evaluation.
Evaluation status
FTMO $200,000 · Phase 1
Day
18 / 30
Profit
+7.4%
Max DD used
42%
Trading days
12 / 10 ✓
Connection log · last 30 days
The real risk
Most failed challenges are technical, not tactical.
Talk to anyone who's run five or ten evaluations and they'll tell you the same thing: the trades that killed the account weren't the bad setups. They were the ones where something froze, disconnected, or rebooted at the worst possible minute. A VPS isn't about latency for prop-firm work. It's about not handing back the pass fee because your ISP had a bad Tuesday.
A single power blip can end a $200k evaluation
Home outages average 4–6 hours a year in the US and far more elsewhere. If yours happens while an FTMO trade is open, the account is done and the pass fee is gone.
Residential ISPs drop packets at the worst moment
News-release volatility is exactly when your consumer connection buffers. Missed stop-management on a Topstep account during CPI is a classic account-killer.
Rule violations that look like tech, really are tech
'Max daily loss exceeded' after a locked screen. 'Inactivity' flag when Windows Update rebooted. These are prop-firm case files, not hypotheticals.
Challenges run for weeks. Your rig can't be flaky for one hour of it
A 30-day evaluation is 720 hours of required uptime. Any home setup that averages 99.5% is losing 3.6 hours somewhere, usually the wrong 3.6 hours.
Home rig vs GhostRDP
What actually breaks an evaluation.
Firms & platforms
Configured for the rulebooks that matter.
We know each firm's rules and the platform quirks that catch traders out. Support can pre-tune your instance for the specific firm you're on: timezone, broker bridge, EA license activation, the lot.
FTMO
MT4 · MT5 · cTrader · DXtrade
Common failure mode
Max daily loss + 10% overall. A disconnect during a spike can eat both.
Topstep
NinjaTrader · Tradovate · TradeStation
Common failure mode
Trailing drawdown resets on end-of-day equity. Missed EOD flat = failed account.
Apex Trader Funding
NinjaTrader · Tradovate · Rithmic
Common failure mode
Consistency rule + trailing threshold. One frozen chart at 8:30 CT can void the account.
The Funded Trader
MT4 · MT5 · DXtrade · Match-Trader
Common failure mode
News trading windows + max lot rules. Automation must not miss a session.
MyForexFunds successors
MT4 · MT5 · cTrader
Common failure mode
Weekend hold restrictions on some plans. Friday-close scripts must fire on time.
Earn2Trade
NinjaTrader · Finamark
Common failure mode
Gauntlet consistency check. A missed session breaks the min-trading-days rule.
EAs & algos, unattended
Run your evaluation while you sleep, work, or fly.
Whether you're grinding a Topstep combine with a NinjaScript strategy or running a news-filter EA through an FTMO Swing plan, your platform stays logged in and executing. No need to leave a laptop running in the corner. RDP in from your phone at any time to check positions or adjust a stop.
Dedicated
vCPU cores · no shared bursting
99.99%
Monthly uptime SLA
N+1
Power, cooling & uplinks
< 60s
Activation after payment
Pricing
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Challenge FAQ
Prop-firm-specific questions, answered.
Yes. All three explicitly permit VPS execution, and it's standard practice among traders who pass and keep funded accounts. Topstep and Apex specifically recommend a VPS for NinjaTrader-based evaluations because a disconnect during the trailing-threshold reset can wipe out an account instantly. FTMO allows any hosted execution as long as the trading itself follows their rules.
FTMO / The Funded Trader / most FX prop firms: MetaTrader 4 or 5, cTrader, and DXtrade, all Windows-native and pre-approved on our Server 2022 image. Topstep and Apex: NinjaTrader 8 with a Rithmic or Tradovate feed. We include the .NET runtimes, C++ redistributables, and Java JRE that these platforms need out of the box.
We run N+1 power, dual uplinks and 24/7 on-site staff, and we publish uptime at ghostrdp.status. In the rare case of a datacenter incident, our support team can migrate your instance to a healthy host in minutes. Critically, your platform reconnects automatically to the firm's server as soon as it's back up. That's usually the difference between a rule violation and 'trade continued as expected'.
Yes. MT4 and MT5 both allow multiple terminals on the same machine: different account numbers, different portfolios. The Funded Pro plan is sized for one evaluation + one funded account running side by side. Multi-Account is what most traders upgrade to once they're scaling to 3–5 funded accounts across firms. Rule of thumb: 2 GB RAM per active MT5 terminal running an EA, 1 GB for a light MT4.
For MT-based firms (FTMO, TFT, MFF successors), our London and NY4 nodes are within 5 ms of the broker bridges most challenge feeds actually route through. For Topstep and Apex (Rithmic / Tradovate), our Chicago node is on the same metro as CME Aurora, sub-millisecond to the matching engine. If you tell support which firm and account you're on, they'll place you in the right region on activation.
That's the entire point of the VPS. Your platform, EA, and pending orders stay live on our infrastructure regardless of what your ISP or laptop are doing. You can close the lid, hop on a plane, or ride out a storm. The evaluation keeps executing. When you reconnect via RDP from your phone or another machine, everything is exactly where you left it.
Yes. The VPS is yours to configure. If you start an FTMO challenge on MT5 and want to add a manual chart on TradingView Desktop, or pass the evaluation and switch to NinjaTrader for a Topstep combine, you just install what you need. Nothing on our side is locked to a specific broker or firm.
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