AI Infrastructure Self-Hosted AI on a VPS: What You Can Run, What You Can’t, and How to Secure It Short answer: you can self-host useful AI tools on a normal cloud server, such as an automation tool (n8n), a chat interface (Open WebUI), and a small vector database for document search. Small local models (Ollama) also run, but slowly, because a server without a GPU is limited by
Security & Backups Snapshot vs Backup: Which One Do You Need? Short answer: a snapshot is a quick restore point stored on the server itself, best for undoing a bad change in minutes. A backup is a full copy stored somewhere else, best for disasters, deleted servers and nightly protection. Use a snapshot before you change something, and scheduled backups for
