Running Zorro from Dropbox

I was hoping someone more knowledgeable than I might be able to give me some advice. I thought I would try installing Zorro in a Dropbox folder installed on my local PC and then syncing that folder with my VPS'. That way, I can easily make changes to a strategy on my PC and have the changes pushed through to the VPS without having to go through tedious file transfers.

I was wondering if this set up might cause some problems because my PC's local time is different to the VPS local time, which is also different to MT4's server time??

Thanks for any advice

This is an interesting idea. The time zone is probably not an issue: only the VPS time zone is relevant, and the zone itself does not matter as long as the clock of the PC is set up correctly.

Belated thanks for that reply JCL. I can confirm that the Dropbox idea seems to work well, contingent on the VPS time matching the time zone.

I had some issues because windows seems to currently think UTC is one hour ahead of where it actually is. I changed the VPS time zone to match my home time zone and the issue seems to have resolved itself.

However, I have noticed that when I have two or more Zorros trading on two or more brokers via MT4 on my VPS, they often display different times and exchange rates in the Server window of the Zorro interface. For example, I have an IC Markets and Global Prime MT4 running on one VPS. The IC Markets UTC time is correct, but Global Prime is an hour slow. Also, it seems that the server window doesn't update in real time, as if it gets frozen. For example, I can see that the server window is currently displaying the time from 11 minutes ago and the corresponding EURUSD price from that time.

What could be causing this? Can it affect live trading? Importantly, the message window seems to update in real time as it should. Its just the server window that seems to lag.

If it's on a VPS, it could be an issue with the remote desktop software - some parts of the screen are not updated. We had observed similar issues with remote controlled PCs too. The server window is probably fine, it's just not displayed correctly.

You can check this: put the HTML status page on the VPS web root and observe it over the web. The status page updates every minute, regardles of the remote desktop. It should show the correct time and price.

Thanks for that suggestion JCL.

This is going to be a dumb question, but I've spent hours on this and haven't found a solution. How do I observe the contents of the VPS web root over the internet? I've tried using http:<VPS IP address>\Status.htm but I just get a time out. When accessing localhost inside the VPS, I can view the status page (and all seems to be working fine as suggested).

Any advice much appreciated!

If it is a default IIS it listens on port 80 on all IP addresses. Did you change something in the IIS config? If not, did you activate the windows firewall? Did you allow port 80 incoming (maybe in windows it is called 'web service' or similar)?

Thanks for that Shpin. I did muck around a bit with the IIS config. I'll try restoring the defaults and see if that helps.