Hi Petko,
Contabo offer just a VPS I think, which is useful, but I am considering a VPN, which allows you to protect your local internet connection from anyone looking at your online activity, such as hackers, government, and twelve-year-old coding experts!! :-O
I am still reading up on it, but my understanding so far is that you can use a remote IP address for all your online activity, whatever you do on your machine at home, the data travels through a protected data “tunnel” to the VPN server, and from there it is encrypted before it gets sent to the destination of your choice, in our case, the brokers server. The encryption prevents anyone seeing the data, or tracing the communication back to your machine and being able to hack into it and see everything in there.
When I finally go live, I would like the peace of mind that my data (and money) are not easily up for grabs.
I wonder if all the routing to different servers etc would have a knock-on effect with things like trade executions though, hence my question asking if anyone has experience with a VPN and trading.
Cheers,
Simon