Quantower on a VPS: Multi-Asset Trading from One Windows Server
Quantower's pitch is one platform for everything — futures over Rithmic, stocks over Interactive Brokers, crypto over Binance. Running it on your desktop undermines that pitch: the machine sleeps, crypto sessions drop overnight, and macOS users cannot run it at all. Here is how a purpose-built Windows VPS fixes each of those problems, and how to size one for Quantower's order-flow tooling.
Quantower Is Windows-Only — and That's the Whole Story for Mac and Linux Users
Quantower is built on .NET for Windows. There is no macOS build, no Linux build, and the community workarounds — Parallels, Wine, CrossOver — range from fragile to unusable for a platform where a dropped connection can mean an unmanaged open position. If you searched for Quantower Linux support or a way to run Quantower on a Mac, the practical answer is a Windows VPS.
The workflow is simpler than a local install: your VPS runs Windows Server with Quantower installed, and you connect from any device — MacBook, Linux desktop, iPad, even a phone — through a Remote Desktop client. Microsoft's RDP clients are free on every platform, and the session streams the full Windows desktop. Quantower itself executes on the server, so closing your laptop ends the viewing session, not the trading session.
This also sidesteps the hardware question entirely. An M-series MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM makes a poor Quantower host through emulation, but it is a perfectly good window onto a Ryzen 9950X server that does the actual work.
System Requirements: What Quantower Actually Needs
Quantower's published minimums (a dual-core CPU and 4GB of RAM) describe a chart-watching setup, not a working one. The platform is modular — each panel is its own .NET component — and the order-flow modules are the expensive ones. A DOM Surface on a liquid contract like ES processes every book update; Power Trades and volume analysis panels hold tick history in memory; TPO and footprint charts recalculate on each print.
In practice: our Swing plan (4 cores, 10GB RAM, 100GB NVMe Gen5, $45/mo) runs Quantower with one or two connections and a handful of charts comfortably. Traders using DOM Surface plus footprint charts across several instruments should start at Momentum (8 cores, 20GB, $85/mo) — the extra memory is what keeps tick-heavy panels from forcing garbage-collection pauses at the worst moment. Flow (16 cores, 40GB, $175/mo) suits multi-monitor layouts spanning futures, crypto, and equities connections at once.
Placing the Server: Follow Your Fastest Market
Multi-asset cuts both ways: your connections point at data centers in different cities, and the VPS can only be adjacent to one of them. The rule is to place the server next to the market where latency costs you money. If your active trading is CME futures over Rithmic, that means our Chicago facility at 427 S La Salle, with sub-millisecond routes to the Rithmic and CQG gateways. Equities-focused traders on Interactive Brokers or dxFeed are better served from Equinix NY7 in New York.
Crypto exchanges are the flexible piece — Binance and Bybit endpoints are geographically distributed and tolerant of a few extra milliseconds, so they ride along fine from either US site. If crypto is your primary market and you trade from Europe, our Equinix LD4 site in London is live and keeps you within quick reach of both crypto endpoints and LSE-adjacent infrastructure.
Setting Up Quantower for Unattended Multi-Asset Trading
Installation is a five-minute job: download Quantower's installer on the VPS, sign in to your license, and add connections from the built-in connection manager with your Rithmic, IB, or exchange API credentials. The parts worth doing deliberately are the unattended-operation details — add Quantower to Windows startup so a server restart restores the platform, save your workspace so panels and layouts persist, and let us manage the Windows Update window so a patch never interrupts a session.
One Quantower-specific note: the platform updates frequently, and updates prompt on launch. On a VPS you control when that happens — take the update after your session, not when a prompt appears mid-trade. Our help center covers auto-start configuration and RDP session persistence step by step.
