Hi all, i am quite an old fart, so i just recently got excited about self hosting an AI, some LLM…
What i want to do is:
- chat with it
- eventually integrate it into other services, where needed
I read about OLLAMA, but it’s all unclear to me.
Where do i start, preferably with containers (but “bare metal”) is also fine?
(i already have a linux server rig with all the good stuff on it, from immich to forjeio to the arrs and more, reverse proxy, Wireguard and the works, i am looking for input on AI/LLM, what to self host and such, not general selfhosting hints)
There’s another community for this: !localllama@sh.itjust.works
Though we mostly discuss the news and specific questions there, beginner questions are a bit more rare.
I think you already got a lot of good answers here, LMStudio, OpenWebUI, LocalAI…
I’d like to add KoboldCpp that’s kind of made for gaming/dialogue, but it can do everything. And from my experience it’s very easy to set up and bundles everything into one program.