Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw on a VPS
Hermes Agent or OpenClaw for a persistent self hosted agent? Pinned to September 2026 tags and compared on ports, sandboxing, memory, skills and Claude auth.
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Run LFM3 on a VPS with Ollama or llama.cpp
Ollama v0.40.13 supports LFM3 on Linux VPSs. Pull lfm3:1.7b, record its digest, set context, compare llama.cpp, and measure tokens per second yourself.
Hermes Agent hosting: a $5 VPS is enough
Hermes needs no GPU: the model runs elsewhere, so a small VPS is plenty. Run it as its own user with ProtectSystem=strict in systemd, and cover IPv6 in UFW.