{"id":435,"date":"2025-01-17T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/01\/17\/10420155-how-to-use-the-metatrader-vps-template-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:01:37","slug":"10420155-how-to-use-the-metatrader-vps-template-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10420155-how-to-use-the-metatrader-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the MetaTrader VPS Template at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">MetaTrader is a popular trading platform that is widely used by forex traders and financial investors. It comes in two main versions, <b>MetaTrader 4 (MT4)<\/b> and <b>MetaTrader 5 (MT5)<\/b>, both offering advanced tools for technical analysis, algorithmic trading, and market monitoring. The platform allows users to trade various financial instruments, including currencies, stocks, commodities, and indices. It supports customizable charts, expert advisors (EAs) for automated trading, and a scripting language (MQL4\/MQL5) to develop trading strategies. MetaTrader is known for its user-friendly interface, making it accessible for both beginners and experienced traders.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">The <a href=\"\/support\/4965922-how-to-change-the-operating-system-of-vps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Ubuntu 24.04 with MetaTrader<\/a> VPS template comes with MetaTrader 4 or 5 pre-installed.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you don&rsquo;t have a VPS yet, check the available options: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps\/forex-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Forex VPS hosting<\/a> &#128640;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_53605fe37a\"><b>How to start using the template?<\/b><\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">You will need a local computer with an RDP client installed to connect to your VPS. Here are some of the available RDP clients for different operating systems:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">On Windows, you can use the default Remote Desktop Connection application<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">On macOS, you can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/microsoft-remote-desktop\/id1295203466\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Remote Desktop<\/a> application<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">On Linux, you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freerdp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">FreeRDP<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/remmina.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\"> Remmina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">To log into your VPS, open the RDP application on your computer and enter the XRDP login credentials:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Computer: <a href=\"\/support\/5139756-how-to-find-vps-ip\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">your_vps_IP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Username: root<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Password: root user password<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">After logging into VPS, the installation of MetaTrader is already in progress. You will need to wait for roughly 2 minutes, after which you will see the following:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/01\/5034da75-341b-4fe9-bb26-456338ef7887.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2158\" alt=\"Wine Mono Installer dialog with Install button highlighted at the bottom right\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Click &ldquo;<b>Install&rdquo;<\/b> and after a few seconds, you will see the following screen:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/01\/e6146818-ae2c-4c25-9960-05742621710b.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2159\" alt=\"MetaTrader 4 setup window showing the license agreement with the Next button highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Click &ldquo;<b>Next<\/b>&rdquo; and after a few seconds, you will see the following screen:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/01\/56217159-9f55-4f8e-9ce7-f6269c15e0d5.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2161\" alt=\"MetaTrader 4 setup completion screen with a highlighted &ldquo;Signup for MQL5 Services&rdquo; button\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! After clicking &ldquo;<b>Finish&rdquo;<\/b>, the MetaTrader application will open, and you can start using the Hostinger VPS with MetaTrader!<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To open the application after closing, double-click the icon created in the Desktop. If that doesn&rsquo;t work &ndash; proceed with the following:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Right click on the icon -&gt; Applications -&gt; Wine -&gt; Programs -&gt; MetaTrader &#8536; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/01\/140b5ccd-c217-490a-b491-0d3109c84e21.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2162\" alt=\"MetaTrader VPS menu showing Applications &gt; Wine &gt; Programs &gt; MetaTrader 4 &gt; MetaEditor highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">For more information, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.mql4.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">MetaTrader 4<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mql5.com\/en\/docs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">MetaTrader 5<\/a> reference guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using MetaTrader VPS template on Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10420155-how-to-use-the-metatrader-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}