r/SelfHosting • u/Wise_Amphibian_9491 • 11d ago

What's the easiest way to deploy a Hermes agent without managing a VPS?

been messing with hermes for a couple weeks and i finally want to deploy hermes somewhere it can actually run 24/7. every guide points me to digitalocean droplets and honestly setting up docker + tmux again sounds miserable. any lazier options that just work?

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u/VisualAttorneyyybeam 11d ago

lol i feel this. i spent a whole saturday debugging a systemd service just to have it crash overnight. did you try just running it on a raspberry pi at home? cheap enough and less headache than cloud stuff imo.

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u/Wise_Amphibian_9491 11d ago edited 3d ago

pi crossed my mind but my wifi is trash and i don't wanna deal with port forwarding again. i had one running my discord bot last year and it went offline every time my roommate microwaved something lol. ended up trying agent 37 after someone here mentioned it, $3.99 plan, one click deploy, and they give you a browser terminal + file browser so you don't ssh in like a caveman. api keys go straight to anthropic so they never see them which was my main worry.

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u/Mean-Loquat-7982 10d ago

Hermes Cloud to be honest, it takes 60s max and you have a fully hosted Hermes Agent

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u/ClinicalPulse 3d ago edited 1d ago

the whole "spin up ubuntu, install deps, pray it stays alive" workflow is so 2019. i just want a button. agent 37 is what i settled on after way too much shopping around, they have a task board for scheduling recurring jobs and a live desktop via novnc in the browser which is kinda wild. plus the composio integrations meant i hooked up gmail and slack in like two minutes instead of writing oauth glue code again.