https://www.romitraj.com/tags/self-hosting/Recent content in Self-Hosting on Romit RajHugoenSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.romitraj.com/posts/2026-10-18-sixteen-gigabytes-and-an-agent/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.romitraj.com/posts/2026-10-18-sixteen-gigabytes-and-an-agent/My agent froze my home server for fifteen minutes while rendering a video, and the kernel killed two things that were not the culprit. With RAM prices doubled, this is the break, learn, fix and monitor version: how I found it, what I capped, and how I watch it now.https://www.romitraj.com/posts/2026-09-20-metering-what-my-agents-spend/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.romitraj.com/posts/2026-09-20-metering-what-my-agents-spend/<p>My agent, Hermes, talks to me on a Matrix server I run myself. Self-hosting the chat window was a privacy decision before it was anything else, and that setup is a post for another day. What matters here: an agent that chats all day needs a meter. So every LLM call it makes goes through a proxy I wrote — and &ldquo;wrote&rdquo; deserves an asterisk, because I&rsquo;m a lawyer. An LLM helps me code things out; I mostly argue with it until it works. One SQLite file tells me what it spent today.</p>