I've had Skydesks for 4 months now. It has been up the whole time without glitches. Uploading files can be tricky until you have a folder on your desktop named 'skydesks' to make it easier. Customer service has been great. The only thing I will say is that it seems slow but that could be just the interface between the user and server and not necessarily skydesks server-to-broker's server...since I never had a missed trade. The window configuration is also tricky not easy to tame so far as in resizing it to use my whole monitor, it seems glitchy and cuts the bottom part at least on my computer. But overall, I give it a 9 out of 10 for being a solid performer at an affordable price.

who were your previous vps? Have either of you had experience with vpsLand?

I've been using Skydesks for a few months as well. It's easy to use and simple. Just pick a broker and everything is setup for you automatically. A regular VPS is designed for everything, but Skydesks obviously took the extra steps to build a hosting solution specifically design for MT4.

They offer a free trial, so I recommend giving it a try.

Can give ear, if you use the VPS, the sample server pings to brokers?

Skydesk is specifically designed to run on the Lynix system for hosting the Evolution_v3 EA from J.Talon, LLC.