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Is self-hosting your AI worth it? We weigh costs, privacy and technical skill to decide between local AI or SaaS. Savings from €900/year. Check our VPS page.
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Notes from the stack
Notes, tutorials, and operating patterns from the d0a1 stack.
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Semantic Search for WordPress with Qdrant and Ollama
Read more: Semantic Search for WordPress with Qdrant and OllamaWordPress finds words, not meaning. Build self-hosted semantic search with Qdrant and Ollama so ‘electric car’ finds ‘electric mobility.’
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How Much Does Your AI Really Cost? Subscriptions, API Fees, and Local Hardware Compared
Read more: How Much Does Your AI Really Cost? Subscriptions, API Fees, and Local Hardware ComparedA 40-a-year subscription versus a 250-euro GPU and the electricity bill: the real numbers of running your AI locally.
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How to Connect Ollama to WordPress: Run Local AI Models on Your Own Server
Read more: How to Connect Ollama to WordPress: Run Local AI Models on Your Own ServerConnect Ollama to WordPress step by step: install, plugin or PHP integration, security, and zero cost per token with local AI.
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AI-Drafted, Human-Reviewed: The Editorial System Behind Every d0a1.es Article
Read more: AI-Drafted, Human-Reviewed: The Editorial System Behind Every d0a1.es ArticleA language model drafted this article; a person reviewed and published it. That division of labor is not a one-off: it is the editorial system at d0a1.es, and it works this way for every article…
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Four d0a1 Packs to Run Local AI on Your Own Machine
Read more: Four d0a1 Packs to Run Local AI on Your Own MachineA standard subscription to a cloud AI assistant costs about $20 a month, $240 a year, just to chat with a model you don’t control while your conversations live on someone else’s servers. The d0a1…
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Deploy the d0a1 Packs on Your Server: A Step-by-Step Guide
Read more: Deploy the d0a1 Packs on Your Server: A Step-by-Step Guide4 GB of RAM is all it takes to have a private AI chat running on your own machine. The d0a1 packs repository contains four Docker-ready deployments: openwebui, wordpress, hermes, and openclaw. Each pack installs…
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What’s New in Hermes Agent: A Local Agent That Learned to Wait
Read more: What’s New in Hermes Agent: A Local Agent That Learned to WaitHermes Agent has a new watch mode scheduler for long-running tasks. What actually changed in recent releases, and what to check before trusting a local agent with scheduled work.
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5 Things You Can Do With a Local AI Assistant (No Cloud)
Read more: 5 Things You Can Do With a Local AI Assistant (No Cloud)Discover 5 practical uses for a local AI assistant: drafting emails, debugging code, editing texts and more—100% private, your data never leaves home.
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Local AI vs ChatGPT: Why Run Your Own AI Assistant in 2026
Read more: Local AI vs ChatGPT: Why Run Your Own AI Assistant in 2026Stop paying €240/year for ChatGPT. Local AI runs free on your PC — full privacy, no subscriptions. See why running your own assistant wins in 2026.
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2026 comparison: the best Ollama models for WordPress
Read more: 2026 comparison: the best Ollama models for WordPress8 Ollama models tested on a 16 GB VPS for real WordPress tasks: SEO, rewriting, moderation. Full 2026 comparison of quality, speed and RAM.