Short procedures, tested on our own machines in Montreal. No filler theory: the commands, the traps, and what to check before going to production.
The open source personal AI agent that answers on WhatsApp or Telegram deserves better than a laptop left open. Here is the clean VPS install, from empty server to a daemon that survives reboots.
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A quantized 8B model fits in 6 GB of RAM and answers at a few tokens per second with no GPU. Here is the honest build, numbers before commands.
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IPv6 is no longer optional: it drives mail deliverability, access from mobile networks, and search visibility. Here is the full configuration.
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An agent looping on your laptop is not a service. Here is what to add so it survives a reboot, an API outage, and your invoice.
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Docker installs in three commands. The trap comes later: a port published by Docker walks straight through UFW. Here is why, and the fix.
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MCP is the standard socket between an agent and your tools. A VPS is enough to expose one — as long as you don't leave the door open.
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WireGuard fits in about a hundred lines of config and saturates a gigabit link on an 8.50 CAD VPS. Here is the full build, server and clients.
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An agent is a program that executes instructions coming from the internet. Treating it as one changes how you deploy it entirely.
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From DNS record to padlock: a clean Nginx virtual host, a Let's Encrypt certificate that renews itself, and the headers that go with it.
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A VPS exposed to the internet gets scanned within minutes of creation. Here is the hardening checklist to run before you put anything on it.
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