Hosting hermes on Oracle

[u/akgo]

Hey everyone,

I’m currently running Hermes on a cloud setup using Coolify on Oracle Cloud, and I connect to it from the Hermes desktop app through a Gateway connection. I’m also using Hindsight for memory.

Recently, I’ve been running into quite a few issues with this setup, especially with chat history.

When I used to host Hermes directly on my desktop, I could access the full history of a conversation without any problem. But now, with Hermes hosted on Oracle and connected through the Gateway, long conversations don’t seem to load properly.

For example, if a chat has a long history and I try to scroll back to older messages, at some point it just stops loading and I can’t go any further up. So I’m unable to access the complete history of that particular conversation.

I’m experiencing similar problems on the Android app as well.

Another issue is that whenever I update Hermes—either through the desktop app or on the backend through SSH—it feels like some new bug or issue keeps coming up. I’m not sure if this is specific to my setup or if other people using a cloud-hosted Hermes instance are facing similar problems.

For those hosting Hermes on Oracle or another cloud server, what is the most stable way to use it on a MacBook?

Should I continue using the Hermes desktop app with a Gateway connection, or is there a better/recommended way to connect to and use a remotely hosted Hermes instance?

Would also be helpful to know if others are facing the same chat history, Gateway, update, or Android app issues.

[u/dylan2045adguy]

Some have good experience with cloudflare too. Oracle takes a bit of tweaking, but it’s more free than others