Self-hosting static or almost-static websites is now really easy with a Cloudflare front. I just closed my account on SmugMug and published my images locally using my NAS; this costs no extra money (is basically free) since the photos were already on the NAS, and the NAS is already powered on 24-7.
The NAS I use is an Asustor so it's not really Linux and you can't install what you want on it, but it has Apache, Python and PHP with Sqlite extension, which is more than enough for basic websites.
Cloudflare free is like magic. Response times are near instantaneous and setup is minimal. You don't even have to configure an SSL certificate locally, it's all handled for you and works for wildcard subdomains.
And of course if one puts a real server behind it, like in the post, anything's possible.
Cloudflare is pretty strict about the Html to media ratio and might suspend or terminate your account if you are serving too many images.
I've read far too many horror stories about this on hn only so please make sure what you're doing is allowed by their TOS.
e.g. is running a personal photography website OK?
PS: talking about Cloudflare being snappy when content is being served from a austore nas made me chuckle.
I have a VPN on a raspberry pi and with that I can connect to my self hosted cloud, dev/staging servers for projects, gitlab and etc when I’m not on my home network.
The images that are published are low-res versions copied to a directory on a partition accessible to the web server.
This is not the safest solution, as it does punch a hole in the lan... It's kind of an experiment... We'll see how it goes.
Personally, I have some notes and bookmarks that I'd like to scrape, then have an LLM summarize, generate hierarchical tags, and store in a database. For the notes part at least, I wouldn't want to give them to another provider; even for the bookmarks, I wouldn't be comfortable passing my reading profile to anyone.
This is one of the reason why recently I added floating chat to https://recurse.chat/ to quickly access local LLM.
Here's a demo: https://x.com/recursechat/status/1846309980091330815
That being said, I think the more straightforward approach would be to utilize an existing library like https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive/ within a Docker container. This way, you can call it via WebSocket and integrate it with my LLM, which could also serve as a nice feature in your product.
You can find plenty of uncensored LLM models here:
[1]: I personally suspect that many LLMs are still trained on WebText, derivatives of WebText, or using synthetic data generated by LLMs trained on WebText. This might be why they feel so "censored":
>WebText was generated by scraping only pages linked to by Reddit posts that had received at least three upvotes prior to December 2017. The corpus was subsequently cleaned
The implications of so much AI trained on content upvoted by 2015-2017 redditors is not talked about enough.
But I haven't yet find any "uncensored" ones (on ollama) that works. Did I miss something?
(On the contrary: when ChatGPT first came out, it was trivial to jailbreak it to make it write erotica.)
However, Do I need to Install CUDA toolkit on host?
I haven't install CUDA toolkit when I use on Containerized platform (like docker)
Nvidia driver + Nvidia container toolkit would do the job. You could check official instructions at [0]
[0] https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-to...
However I've found quality of smaller models to be quite lacking. The Llama 3.2 3B for example is much worse than Gemma2 9B, which is the one I found performs best while fitting comfortably.
Actual sentences are fine, but it doesn't follow prompts as well and it doesn't "understand" the context very well.
Quantization brings down memory cost, but there seems to be a sharp decline below 5 bits for those I tried. So a larger but heavily quantized model usually performs worse, at least with the models I've tried so far.
So with only 6GB of GPU memory I think you either have to accept the hit on inference speed by only partially offloading, or accept fairly low model quality.
Doesn't mean the smaller models can't be useful, but don't expect ChatGPT 4o at home.
That said if you got a beefy CPU then it can be reasonable to have it do a few of the layers.
Personally I found Gemma2 9B quantized to 6 bit IIRC to be quite useful. YMMV.
I tried gemma-2-27b-it-Q4_K_L but it's not as good, despite being larger.
Using llama.cpp and models from here[1].
Testing performance this way, I got about 0.5-1.5 tokens per second with an 8GB 4bit quantized model on an old DL360 rack-mount server with 192GB RAM and 2 E5-2670 CPUs. I got about 20-50 tokens per second on my laptop with a mobile RTX 4080.
I use a Tesla P4 for ML stuff at home, it's equivalent to a 1080 Ti, and has a score of 7.1. A 2070 (they don't list the "super") is a 7.5.
For reference, 4060 Ti, 4070 Ti, 4080 and 4090 are 8.9, which is the highest score for a gaming graphics card.
Edit: I've loaded llama 3.1 8b instruct GGUF and I got 12.61 tok/sec and 80tok/sec for 3.2 3b.
It reminds a bit of making web sites with a page builder. Easy to install and click around to get something running without thinking too much about it fairly quickly.
Problems are quite similar also, training wheels getting stuck in the woods more easily, hehe.
It was so easy to get other non-AI stuffs running!
Given a 16gb system with cpu inference only, I’m hosting gemma2 9b at q8 for llm tasks and SDXL turbo for image work and besides the memory usage creeping up for a second or so while i invoke a prompt, they’re basically undetectable in the background.
