- Total cost = setup + infrastructure + maintenance + support.
- Edge delivery removes most infrastructure and maintenance costs.
- Cloudflare Workers include a free plan with a daily request allowance, and paid plans start low.
- Custom terminals carry the highest cost because they are software development projects.
The four cost factors
- Setup: configuring the terminal, domain, SSL and branding.
- Infrastructure: servers, bandwidth and certificates, or their serverless equivalent.
- Maintenance: updates, monitoring, security patches and configuration changes.
- Support: help for your team when something needs to change.
VPS-based setups
A VPS with a reverse proxy has a monthly server bill, and most of its real cost is people: someone must patch the operating system, renew or automate certificates, watch uptime and adjust the proxy when things change. Serving several regions well usually means several servers.
Edge delivery
With Cloudflare Workers there is no server to rent or patch, and SSL is automatic. Cloudflare’s Workers platform has a free plan with a daily request allowance and low-cost paid plans with higher limits. Many brokers’ web terminal traffic fits within these tiers. Check Cloudflare’s current Workers pricing for exact limits.
What remains is the service itself: setup, configuration and support. Ask us for FXPTrader pricing.
Custom terminals
Building your own terminal on the MT5 Web API means design, front-end and back-end development, testing, hosting and ongoing maintenance. It offers the most freedom and costs the most in both money and time.
Costs brokers often forget
- Engineer time for certificate or server incidents.
- Extra servers for performance in new regions.
- Changes when you add a brand or trading server.
- Security hardening against DDoS and phishing clones.