A weekly VPS health check without extra indicators
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2026 2:15 pm
A ten-minute VPS check once a week, Sunday evening before Asia opens, prevents most surprises.
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?
- 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.
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?