Where are IC Markets, Pepperstone and other brokers’ servers?

Your broker’s server city tells you which of our cities to pick.

Your broker’s trade servers sit in a particular city. When our server is in that city too, it opens a short local connection to your broker. Data lost on that link is then recovered inside that city.

This table lists only what each broker states on its own pages, read on 29 September 2026. Many brokers state no city at all.

Use it to pick a city without guessing. A broker can change its page or move a server, so confirm with support.

FP Markets names two data-centre buildings, not cities. We took the cities from Equinix’s New York listing and Equinix’s London listing. Equinix puts those buildings in Secaucus, New Jersey, and Slough, so a city here means the market the operator names.

Every row that names a city names London or New York, and we have servers in both. So for each of these brokers, you can pick the same city as its server. Our server cities lists the rest.

The MetaTrader 4 and 5 desktop terminals have a proxy setting, and that is what you use with us. Each platform’s maker decides which of its connections use its proxy setting. For cTrader, read our cTrader page before you match a city.

If your broker states no city, ask before you pick one.

Some brokers publish no city, or only a building name. Pepperstone’s VPS page names no city. We will not guess a row, because a wrong city would put our server far from your broker.

Exness says it assigns each account to a server at random and that you cannot change it. Find yours in your Exness Personal Area, then ask support which city it is in. That answer is the city to pick.

Brokers can also run each platform in a different city. IC Markets states New York for MetaTrader and London for cTrader, so ask about your platform.

You can find your broker’s city yourself in three steps.

Find your broker’s server city goes through these steps in more detail.

A building name still leads you to a city you can pick.

Some broker pages name a data-centre building by the operator’s short code instead of a city. Search that name on the operator’s own site.

Equinix, for one, lists each building under a city, with its street address. That city is the one to pick.

This page uses cities only. For our own servers too, we name the city, never the building.

The city matters more than the country, because distance is measured to it.

A country can be very wide, and your distance is measured to the broker’s server city. In a large country, the wrong city can be thousands of kilometres away.

Light in glass fibre covers about 200 km every millisecond (a fibre reference). There and back covers the distance twice, so every 1,000 km adds at least 10 milliseconds. That minimum sits inside every order’s ping, the time data takes there and back.

Real cables are longer than a straight line, so real times are longer than the minimum.

A bigger internet plan moves more data each second, but it does not shorten the distance. So it does not shorten the wait on each order.

Matching your broker’s city lets our server recover lost data locally.

A backtest runs on your own machine, so no internet link can lose a piece of data during a news release. In live trading, one lost piece holds up every price update and order behind it. Everything waits while your computer sends it again across the world.

Our server in your broker’s city opens a separate local connection to your broker. If data drops on that link, our server recovers it inside that city.

Your order waits on that short local link instead of the whole way. Trading ports go first when a server is busy, and broker addresses stay warm in memory.

We don’t promise lower ping. Distance sets the minimum. Your data still has to reach your broker’s city. Choose your broker’s city in your dashboard, and change it there.

When you switch, your broker sees the new city’s address. So if your broker moves a server, you can follow it.

If your broker’s server is in a city we don’t list, our server cannot be there, so choose the nearest listed city. Our server cities shows them all.

You cannot paste four values into your platform while your chart is already frozen in a live trade. Set it up today while the market is calm. Then time it on your own screen during the next release.

If our server in your broker’s city is unreachable, your platform shows an error and your dashboard asks before using another city. If your broker prohibits proxies, don’t use one.