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Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? (europe.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone run their own AI service?

If so,

Which one?

What hardware?

Do you have a way to access it from outside or from a phone?

And, if you're open to sharing, what do you do with it?

I know AI-enabling hardware is insanely expensive right now, but some of the smaller (<32GB) more efficient models (think deepseek- or qwen-based) don't absolutely need specialized hardware to run and perform well enough for many purposes.

I am so aware of the absolutely abysmal privacy practices of basically all AI companies that I'm not comfortable using them to help me with web searches and the such, because there's no way that all this information won't be going into a profile. This makes me want to have my own "helper" service.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm building toward exactly this, so take it with that bias. The cheap tier works if you lower expectations. An N150 mini PC with 16GB runs small models through Ollama fine, but 8B models are slow on that class of chip, and you'll feel it on anything chat-shaped. Where it shines is async work: summarize this, tag that, answer when it's ready. For phone access I'd keep it LAN-only and use WireGuard or Tailscale to get home rather than opening a port.

Disclosure: I'm working on a small open-source home box that bundles local AI with offline Wikipedia and media. What would make you trust a box like that over a setup you built yourself?

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