Why a VPS built for futures
NinjaTrader wants fast cores and plenty of memory. And a computer that never goes off.
A futures platform is not a MetaTrader. Tick charts, depth of market, volume profile and automated strategies keep the processor busy all session long, and every extra chart takes its share of RAM.
That is why NinjaTrader VPS plans start at 3 vCores at 3.4 GHz with 6 GB of RAM and go up to 8 vCores and 16 GB. With this kind of software, the speed of each core matters before the number of cores.
Meanwhile your own PC stays free. The platform runs in the data centre; you open it over Remote Desktop from wherever you are and find it exactly as you left it.