A weekly VPS health check without extra indicators

[FXS London Scalper]

A ten-minute VPS check once a week, Sunday evening before Asia opens, prevents most surprises.

• Disk space above 20% free. MT5 logs grow faster than expected.
• Windows or Linux updates: install them now, not mid-week when they force a restart.
• Ping to the trade server, compared with last week.
• Each terminal: correct account, correct EAs attached, AutoTrading state as intended.
• Experts and Journal tabs: any errors since last check.
• Clock synchronisation, since some EAs rely on local time.
• Backup of templates, profiles and EA settings copied off the VPS.

Keep a one-line log per week: date, ping, free space, issues. Trends show problems early, such as ping slowly getting worse after the provider moved hardware.

What not to add: monitoring indicators on charts. They use resources and rarely tell you more than the Journal does. If a check fails twice in a row, treat it as a task for the weekend rather than something to fix with positions open on Monday morning.

What's on your weekly checklist?