Self-Hosting

How to Deploy Hermes Agent on Your Own VPS: Step-by-Step Guide (2026) TL;DR: Deploy Hermes Agent on a $6/mo VPS — open-source AI agent with 185k+ GitHub stars, persistent memory, and Kanban task scheduling. Own your automation stack with no lock-in and no data leaving your server. Why Self-Host Hermes Agent? Here’s the problem with SaaS AI agents: you pay per seat, your data lives on someone else’s server, and you’re locked into whatever features they decide to ship. Self-hosting Hermes Agent flips that — one VPS, unlimited users in your team, full control over which models you use, and your conversation history stays on hardware you control. ...

Look, LLMs are great at generating text but terrible at remembering what you told them five minutes ago. So every session starts from scratch. And you repeat your preferences, your project context, your API keys — yet the model still drifts off-topic by turn 15. So most “AI memory” tools handle this by keeping everything in RAM or shipping your data to a cloud API. But neither scales well when you’re running multi-session agent workflows. ...