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04/06/2026

We've teamed up with AI to bring to LumaDock customers, and it can cut your agent's running costs by up to 90 percent.

Running OpenClaw gets expensive fast, because every task hits the expensive frontier model even when it doesn't need to.

Neurometric builds and hosts small models trained for specific jobs, so routine work runs at around 90 percent less cost while your frontier model stays in reserve for the tough requests.

Best of all, it runs on the VPS you already have, with a free tier to try first.

LumaDock has partnered with Neurometric so ClawPack routes routine OpenClaw tasks to small models and dramatically cuts your bill.

03/06/2026

Big AI news this week! At its Build conference, Microsoft launched Scout, a new always-on assistant for Microsoft 365 that's built on , the open-source AI agent that blew up earlier this year.

Here's the curious part: Microsoft's CEO called OpenClaw a security risk just a few months ago, and now the company has shipped a product on top of it.

The good news for everyone else: you don't need Microsoft to run OpenClaw. It's open-source and you can host it yourself on a private server. Microsoft's own security team even recommends running it in an isolated environment, which is exactly what a gives you.

We've been hosting OpenClaw and writing guides for it since January. If you want to know what Scout means and how to run your own agent, and our CMO wrote about it here:

Microsoft launched Scout, an OpenClaw-based agent for Microsoft 365. See what it means for anyone self-hosting OpenClaw.

28/05/2026

has landed on LumaDock! Our newest runs the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell as a dedicated card with full passthrough, so you're never sharing it with anyone else's jobs.

There's 16 GB of GDDR7 with ECC to keep long runs stable, plus fifth-gen Tensor cores rated at 545 AI TOPS. It all sits on AMD EPYC with fast NVMe and bandwidth we don't meter.

Deployment takes seconds. No setup fees and nothing hidden on the bill. You choose monthly or annual billing, whatever suits the project.

This is the first Blackwell in our lineup and more are coming.

26/05/2026

LumaDock is now officially listed on listmonk.app as a hosting provider.

For anyone running their own newsletter setup, Listmonk is one of the strongest open-source options out there. Zerodha uses it to send over 30 million emails a month. Single binary, PostgreSQL backend, AGPLv3 licensed, maintained by Kailash Nadh.

Our customers can now deploy it as a 1-click template on any LumaDock VPS. Ubuntu 24.04, PostgreSQL ready out of the box, your subscriber data on hardware you control.

https://lumadock.com/vps-hosting/listmonk

25/05/2026

Coverage from Hosting Journalist on the Developer we launched in April. Fair, technical piece, and the writer got the architectural reason a single-node K3s setup can include the control plane where EKS, GKE and AKS bill it separately at around $73 a month before any worker node joins.

The article walks through the seven recurring use cases from the private beta: n8n automation hubs for agencies, staging environments mirroring AWS or GCP production, SaaS MVPs in a single namespace, freelancer client hosting with Traefik routing per domain, CKA/CKAD certification prep, self-hosted CI/CD runners and Uptime Kuma for monitoring.

Worth a read if you've ever priced managed Kubernetes for a side project and quietly closed the tab:
https://hostingjournalist.com/tech-wire/lumadock-launches-single-node-k3s-vps-for-developers-and-teams

20/05/2026

26.04 LTS shipped last month with 7.0 (the kernel renumbered, that's not a typo), sudo rewritten in Rust as the default, OpenSSH 10.2 with post-quantum key exchange and cgroup v1 finally removed.

If you're spinning up a fresh this month, this is the release we'd start on. Five years of standard support gets you to April 2031.
We wrote up how to deploy it on a LumaDock VPS, the post-install checklist worth running, the kernel 7.0 changes worth knowing and the bits from 24.04 that catch people out. The Docker pre-20.10 warning matters for anyone with older containers in their fleet.

Deploy Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on a VPS. Kernel 7.0, changes from 24.04 and the post-install steps that matter.

18/05/2026

The complete guide to self-hosting is up. Every tutorial we've written about the agent, plus the and cross-references, ordered by what people need first.
Decision. Install. Migrate. Add a channel. Make it production-grade. Understand the memory model. Recover from crashes.

Bookmark it: https://lumadock.com/tutorials/hermes-agent-complete-guide

Self-host Hermes Agent end to end. Install, migrate from OpenClaw, deploy with systemd or Docker, scale and harden.

13/05/2026

is the open-source self-hosted AI agent everyone's been switching to. 100K GitHub stars in under two months, MIT licensed, runs on a 2 GB VPS.

It's now a 1-click template on every LumaDock plan. The server boots with the agent pre-installed on Ubuntu 24.04, you SSH in, the setup menu walks you to the dashboard, you pick a provider and a messaging channel. Five minutes.

Already on ? The migration tool comes baked in.
https://lumadock.com/blog/hermes-agent-vps-hosting-now-available

Deploy Hermes Agent on a LumaDock VPS with one click. Pre-installed on Ubuntu 24.04 with the dashboard ready to pair.

07/05/2026

Our colleague .withme92 is at 2026 today, representing LumaDock.

Good to see Alex Trifu and Virgil Truica there! If you spot him, say hi 💜

30/04/2026

is now on LumaDock! It's a self-hosted deployment platform - deploy from Git, Docker images or Compose files, spin up databases, get SSL automatically. All from a dashboard, all on your own server. Great if you want PaaS-style convenience without the PaaS bill.

Setup guide: https://lumadock.com/knowledgebase/articles/14705318-dokploy-getting-started-guide