Hey openclaw been blowing up lately—where are you hosting? Any ultra‑cheap setups?

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• cloudblast Member, Patron Provider

  March 4

  You just need a VPS really, Mac Mini is not necessary in most cases unless you want to use iMessage or similar
• MikeA Member, Patron Provider

  March 4

  Any VPS with like 6-8GB+ works fine from what I've seen.
• nghialele Member

  March 4

  Not having it is the cheapest option 👌🏽

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• jcn50 Member

  March 4 edited March 4

  @MikeA said: Any VPS with like 6-8GB+ works fine from what I've seen.

  It is actually very low CPU & RAM usage, and can run on a 1vCPU/1GB RAM (+ 4GB~6GB vSwap)/and 30GB disk! So you can have fun for ~$10/year (or less) just for the hosting.

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• openid Member

  March 4

  @jcn50 said:

  @MikeA said: Any VPS with like 6-8GB+ works fine from what I've seen.

  It is actually very low CPU & RAM usage, and can run on a 1vCPU/1GB RAM (+ 4GB~6GB vSwap)/and 30GB disk! So you can have fun for ~$10/year (or less) just for the hosting.

  really?then i must try it
• nikio Member

  March 4

  @nghialele said:
  Not having it is the cheapest option 👌🏽

  And the correct option.

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• orangevps Member, Patron Provider

  March 4

  VPS with tailscale peer to peer is great idea!

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• stefeman Member

  March 4

  Full of malware in skills repository and its abandonware after the founder and several key personel joined OpenAI

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• openid Member

  March 4

  @stefeman said:
  Full of malware in skills repository and its abandonware after the founder and several key personel joined OpenAI

  heard but i hadnt used the clawhub
• stefeman Member

  March 4 edited March 4

  @openid said:

  @stefeman said:
  Full of malware in skills repository and its abandonware after the founder and several key personel joined OpenAI

  heard but i hadnt used the clawhub

  At least one in five skills is infected with infostealer or trojan or something else.

  Not to mention the devs don't give a shit about the situation.

  

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• jcn50 Member

  March 4

  @openid said: really?then i must try it

  Yeah you can use one of your Dedirock's box! Just make sure the CPU has all instructions:

  cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep rdrand
  cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " aes"
  

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• BharatB Member, Patron Provider

  March 4

  better go with ZeroClaw instead

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• motafoka Member

  March 4

  @nghialele said:
  Not having it is the cheapest option 👌🏽

  

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• motafoka Member

  March 4

  @jcn50 said:

  @openid said: really?then i must try it

  Yeah you can use one of your Dedirock's box! Just make sure the CPU has all instructions:

  cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep rdrand
  cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " aes"
  

  My Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand....
  That is a sign to not install this...

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• jcn50 Member

  March 4 edited March 4

  @motafoka said: My Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand....

  You can either:
  1) ask for the node to be changed~ (your VM will be wiped & re-created)
  2) install the haveged package

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• interservermike Member, Patron Provider

  March 4

  It runs fine on an Ubuntu VPS. Even better with GUI for the browser work. Use a good model like minimax-m2.5, or you will have issues with tool calls. The token usage is not crazy if you get access to it over openrouter.ai. Or run it on your own GPU at InterServer for privacy :-)
• dosai Member

  March 4

  It will be merged with openai so no.
• motafoka Member

  March 4

  @jcn50 said:

  @motafoka said: My Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand....

  You can either:
  1) ask for the node to be changed~ (your VM will be wiped & re-created)
  2) install the haveged package

  I'll try to ask for a node change first, while the VM still not fully in use.

  Thanks for the info
• forest Member

  March 5

  @jcn50 said:

  @motafoka said: My Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand....

  You can either:
  1) ask for the node to be changed~ (your VM will be wiped & re-created)
  2) install the haveged package

  haveged won't do anything on any modern kernel. It only kicks in when the entropy estimation from /dev/random is low, but the Linux kernel has switched away from using the blocking entropy pool in kernel 4.x.

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• gbzret4d Member

  March 5

  I can host it for for you on my big vps

  Trust me bro
• dergelbe Member

  March 5 edited March 5

  @jcn50 said:

  @MikeA said: Any VPS with like 6-8GB+ works fine from what I've seen.

  It is actually very low CPU & RAM usage, and can run on a 1vCPU/1GB RAM

  I believe it needs 2 core CPUs. I didn't manage to install it on my 1 core 4Gb VPS. Went with ZeroClaw in a docker container instead,

  @BharatB said:
  better go with ZeroClaw instead

  It runs on smaller hardware, but it's not much talked about. Hard to find information, no tutorials etc. I run it, but plan to switch to OpenClaw.
• jcn50 Member

  March 5 edited March 5

  @forest said: haveged won't do anything on any modern kernel. It only kicks in when the entropy estimation from /dev/random is low, but the Linux kernel has switched away from using the blocking entropy pool in kernel 4.x.

  It did fix for me~ entropy was 100 or less, and was being quickly depleted (with all the SSL/TLS/encryption routines).

  @dergelbe said: I believe it needs 2 core CPUs. I didn't manage to install it on my 1 core 4Gb VPS. Went with ZeroClaw in a docker container instead,

  What error did you get? OpenClaw does not need a lot of CPU (maybe you installed via Docker too? Try without it~), because all the AI part is outsourced to your assigned model (via API).
• dergelbe Member

  March 8

  @jcn50 said:

  @dergelbe said: I believe it needs 2 core CPUs. I didn't manage to install it on my 1 core 4Gb VPS. Went with ZeroClaw in a docker container instead,

  What error did you get? OpenClaw does not need a lot of CPU (maybe you installed via Docker too? Try without it~), because all the AI part is outsourced to your assigned model (via API).

  Yes, I tried to install it in Docker. Maybe that was the issue. Meanwhile I have another VPS 4cpu/8Gb - but bhyve virtualization that also causes some headaches (issues around Docker, so put it in /home/ under a special user with no writing rights outside of some/home/ folders)
• chorong Member

  March 8

  @motafoka said: Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand

  See if your CPU identifies as QEMU or not. If it does, put in a support ticket to ask for host passthrough on your VM.
• whynotlearn Member

  March 8

  Yes openclaw has been "blowing" up User's security if that's what you mean.

  where are you hosting?

  I am not
• motafoka Member

  March 8

  @chorong said:

  @motafoka said: Dedirock box doesn't have rdrand

  See if your CPU identifies as QEMU or not. If it does, put in a support ticket to ask for host passthrough on your VM.

  I put in a support ticket and they moved my instance to a node with all the flags.
  Great customer service so far.
• Hosting_b2b Member, Patron Provider

  March 9

  https://hostingb2b.com/how-to/ht-vps-hosting/how-to-deploy-openclaw-linux/