MT5 VPS vs dedicated server: choose infrastructure by broker workload.
Retail trading VPS and broker-side MetaTrader infrastructure solve different problems. Broker workloads require decisions around isolation, operational control, monitoring, backup, regional topology and growth.
VPS strengths
Virtual environments can be practical for lighter auxiliary workloads, testing and some smaller deployments where predictable resource requirements are well understood.
Dedicated strengths
Dedicated infrastructure offers stronger resource isolation, more predictable performance characteristics and greater control for critical broker workloads and scaling plans.
Decision framework
Choose based on workload criticality, expected client concurrency, integration count, recovery requirements, region strategy and the cost of infrastructure contention.