Short procedures, tested on our own machines in Montreal. No filler theory: the commands, the traps, and what to check before going to production.
No more API key in the repository's secrets: GitHub Actions signs a five-minute token for each job, and FFxF accepts it when it matches your rules. Provider, binding, workflow and the real output of a demonstration.
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No law makes a private business host its data in Canada. Law 25 requires an assessment before data leaves Quebec, PIPEDA keeps you accountable wherever it goes, and the CLOUD Act follows the company, not the server.
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A load balancer takes traffic on its own address and shares it across your machines. Pools and health checks, an HTTPS listener with an automatic certificate, path routing, maintenance without downtime: a complete setup, at 0.010 CAD an hour.
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A test service forgotten on port 8080, visible to the whole Internet. We put on a firewall from the console, check from the outside, restrict SSH and filter outbound traffic, with the real output at each step.
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Easypanel joins the catalogue: a VPS delivered with the Docker panel already installed, answering on port 3000 less than two minutes after the order.
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No public IPv4, 2 CAD less a month, and GitHub still in reach: a demo of an IPv6-only VPS, and of the gateway that links it to the IPv4 Internet.
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Code TRY10: 10 CAD of free credit, even if you are already a customer. Plus in October: IPv6-only VPS, hourly rental, API.
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A fresh machine per task, a ready environment, secrets kept in place, a PR to review: Codex Cloud's building blocks, assembled with the agent and model of your choice, over MCP or with a fifty-line script.
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A real run, call by call: the agent estimates the price, orders a Nano, gets it in 42 seconds, works on it over SSH and destroys it. The limits that held, and the bill: 0.018 CAD.
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An indicator that draws arrows, a utility that turns them into orders, and a Windows VPS delivered with MetaTrader so the whole thing runs without you. From the MQL5 Market to the panel, with the settings to revisit before leaving the automation alone.
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A dedicated IP, a terminal that keeps running, equity guards set below the firm's limits: a VPS does not pass the challenge for you, but it removes the ways to fail that have nothing to do with trading.
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A machine ordered by script lives for the length of a job, then disappears. Keys and scopes, a catalogue readable without one, idempotent creation, action polling and a destruction trap: thirty-five lines of script, at 0.018 CAD an hour.
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Profiles, .set files, indicators, Market products and their activations: what to copy, what to reactivate, and in which order so the PC stays as a fallback until the VPS has proven itself.
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The only number that matters is the one between your machine and your broker's server. How to get it in ten minutes, what to expect from Montréal, and for which strategies it changes anything.
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A real Windows machine with MetaTrader, hosted in Montréal and billed in Canadian dollars. Where Canadian brokers keep their servers, what the MetaQuotes VPS cannot do, which plan to pick and how to start.
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The currency market runs nonstop from Sunday night to Friday evening. A VPS keeps MetaTrader and your robots online while your laptop is closed: Windows over RDP or Linux with Wine, auto-start on boot, locked-down access.
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Not every VPS is a good trading VPS. What actually matters: latency to your broker, genuinely dedicated resources and real uptime. Plus how to check each of them before you pay.
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The open source personal AI agent that answers on WhatsApp or Telegram deserves better than a laptop left open. Here is the clean VPS install, from empty server to a daemon that survives reboots.
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A quantized 8B model fits in 6 GB of RAM and answers at a few tokens per second with no GPU. Here is the honest build, numbers before commands.
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IPv6 is no longer optional: it drives mail deliverability, access from mobile networks, and search visibility. Here is the full configuration.
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An agent looping on your laptop is not a service. Here is what to add so it survives a reboot, an API outage, and your invoice.
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Docker installs in three commands. The trap comes later: a port published by Docker walks straight through UFW. Here is why, and the fix.
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MCP is the standard socket between an agent and your tools. A VPS is enough to expose one, as long as you don't leave the door open.
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WireGuard fits in about a hundred lines of config and saturates a gigabit link on an 8.50 CAD VPS. Here is the full build, server and clients.
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An agent is a program that executes instructions coming from the internet. Treating it as one changes how you deploy it entirely.
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From DNS record to padlock: a clean Nginx virtual host, a Let's Encrypt certificate that renews itself, and the headers that go with it.
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A VPS exposed to the internet gets scanned within minutes of creation. Here is the hardening checklist to run before you put anything on it.
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