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How to Self-Host SearXNG with Docker on a VPS
SearXNG is a free metasearch engine that sends your query to many search engines, merges the results and keeps no profile of you. To run your own self-hosted…
How to Self-Host OpenHands on a VPS: AI Coding Agent Setup
OpenHands is an open-source AI coding agent that edits code and runs shell commands in a workspace you control. To self-host it on a VPS, you run its…
How to Run gpt-oss-120b on a Single GPU VPS (96 GB VRAM)
gpt-oss-120b is OpenAI’s open-weight reasoning model, and it runs on a single GPU VPS with 96 GB of VRAM. Its mixture-of-experts weights ship natively in 4-bit MXFP4, so…
OpenClaw Use Cases: 25 Ways to Automate Work on Your Own VPS
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that runs on your own server and acts for you through chat apps, files and APIs. The best OpenClaw use cases are…
How to Install Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker on a VPS
Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is a web interface for running an Nginx reverse proxy with free Let’s Encrypt certificates. On a VPS you deploy it with a single…
How Much VRAM Do You Need to Run an LLM? Model Size Guide
How much VRAM you need for an LLM comes down to one calculation: parameters × bytes per weight, plus room for the KV cache and runtime overhead. That…
How to Host a Remote MCP Server on a VPS: Docker, HTTPS, Auth
A remote MCP server exposes tools to AI clients over HTTP instead of through a local process. To host one, you package the server in a container, run…
How to Self-Host Piper TTS for Offline Voice Generation
Piper TTS is a free neural text-to-speech engine that runs on CPU alone. Learn how to install it on a VPS, download a voice, serve audio over HTTP,…