Since April, selected virtual privateserver providers have raised prices by as much as 144% as AI-driven demandstrained memory supply. For retail trading, the increases raise a secondquestion: who pays to keep an algorithm online around the clock?The bill currently falls in three places. Atrader can rent a server, a brokerage can subsidize one in exchange for tradingvolume or a platform vendor can include hosted execution in its software.Demand for dedicated trading infrastructureremains visible. Beeks signed a five-year Proximity Cloud contract with an FX brokeragethis year.Platform-hosted bots reduce setup work butgive the vendor more control over capacity, eligibility and the executionenvironment. Traditional VPS products allow broader customization, includingexternal applications and Windows-dependent strategies.Generic VPS Prices Jump, but Existing Bills LagHetzner raised the monthly price of itsCPX22 cloud server in Germany and Finland from EUR 7.99 to EUR 19.49 on June15, an increase of 143.9%. The change generally applies to new orders and servers that customers rescale,while unchanged existing instances retain their terms.OVHcloud increased its entry VPS-1 planfrom EUR 4.49 to EUR 6.49, or 44.5%, and VPS-6 from EUR 48.99 to EUR 72.99, or49.0%. OVHcloud said new prices apply after the current contractual period.Leaseweb set an average 20% increase forselected new VPS contracts from Aug. 1. Its US entry plan nearly doubled from$3.50 to $6.99, while ongoing contracts were excluded. Leaseweb cited higher memory and storage costsamong the reasons.OVHcloud said memory manufacturers hadredirected capacity toward GPUs and high-bandwidth computing. Micron separatelytold investors that AI demand was outpacing industry supply for memory andstorage.At data-center operator Equinix, AI workloads accounted for about 60% of its largestfirst-quarter deals.The quoted products are genericinfrastructure, not managed trading servers. A trading VPS may also includeWindows, support, backups and a location close to the matching infrastructureused for execution, so the price changes are not a direct measure of brokercosts.Algo Hosting Splits Across Three ModelsMetaTrader users can rent a virtualterminal through the MQL5 network for $15 for one month, falling toan equivalent $10 a month on an annual plan. The service migrates ExpertAdvisors and charts, but it does not provide physical server access andprohibits DLL calls.Brokerages sometimes cover that expense foractive clients. Pepperstone's published terms require at least $1 millionof trading volume over 60 days for sponsored VPS costs. FP Markets and ICMarkets use monthly lot thresholds in their own programs.The volume conditions connect the hostingsubsidy to brokerage revenue. Specialist providers remain part of the samemarket: another FX broker awarded Beeks a roughly $2 millioncontract in 2025 for a dedicated Proximity Cloud environment.cTrader Brings Cloud Execution Into Its AppscTrader takes the vendor-funded route."Spotware covers the cost," Andrei Datsenko, General Manager atcTrader, told FinanceMagnates.com.Cloud Execution lets compatible cBots run without a separate trader-managed VPS. A trader can start and manage a cloud cBot through cTrader Mobile, Web, Windows or Mac. Cloud synchronization makes installed and created algorithms available across applications, while the bot continues running when the trader's device is offline.cTrader's published rules allow up to 10 concurrent cloud instanceson a live account and one on a demo account. The demo instance stops afterseven days but can be restarted."The server location for a Cloud cBotis selected automatically based on the broker," Datsenko said. Traderscannot choose a region, and he did not provide a numerical latency target or anuptime commitment.Platform Clouds Do Not Run Every StrategycTrader Cloud operates in a Linux-basedenvironment. Its published requirements exclude Windows-specificinterfaces, runtime-loaded standalone DLLs and ordinary HTTPrequests. Local files are cleared when an instance stops or is deleted.Those limits leave a role for full VPSaccess when a strategy uses external processes, custom networking, severaltrading terminals or Windows components.TradeLocker Studio currently uses another model.For continuous 24-hour operation, the computer must remain awake and theapplication open.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.