We have been working on this for quite some time, mainly for internal use only. Today, we are rolling it out to everyone: Hermes Agent VPS, a self-hosted AI agent server that you can now deploy with a single click!
We didn’t want Hermes to be something you had to fight to set up. Self-hosting an AI agent usually means wrestling with GPU drivers, Docker configuration, and lots of other installation dependencies. That’s the opposite of what most businesses want from their infrastructure provider.
If you have been keeping an eye on the AI space, you’ll know that “agents” are the new hot trend. Most of what gets called an agent is really just a chatbot with a few extra hooks bolted on. Hermes isn’t that. It’s built on Nous Research’s open-weight Hermes models, and it’s designed to get things done – not just answer questions about them.
What is Hermes Agent?
Hermes is an open-source AI agent framework that runs entirely on your own infrastructure (self-hosted). Unlike the AI tools most businesses use today, nothing about how Hermes works requires sending your data off to a third party. The model, the conversation history, the documents it reads, the commands it runs – all of it stays on your server, under your control.
“At NetShop ISP, we believe in data sovereignty. In fact, it’s deeply embedded in our DNA hence we’ve been helping businesses keep their data regional through our worldwide data center infrastructure for the past 22 years.”, said Stefano Sordini, CEO at NetShop ISP
That distinction matters more than it might sound. If your business handles client contracts, financial records, trading data, or anything else you’d rather not hand to an external API, running your own agent changes the conversation entirely. You get the benefits of AI assistance without the compliance headache of a third party holding your data.
What Hermes Agent Can Do
Once you get your Hermes AI Agent VPS is up and running, you can start getting it to do almost any repetitive or research-heavy task your team deals with day to day:
- Emails filtering – reading, categorising, and drafting first-pass responses to incoming emails or tickets.
- Log and monitoring summaries – optimizing a tsunami of server logs or alerts into a plain-English summary of what actually needs attention
- Document search and internal knowledge base – answering questions from your own runbooks, wikis, and internal docs instead of generic training data
- Content and drafting support – producing first drafts of client communications, reports, or internal documentation
- Website and SEO auditing – crawling and assessing your own site for search and AI-answer-engine readiness
Something which we, at NetShop ISP, love about Hermes agent is its orientation for technical teams. It ships with a proper CLI, supports tool integrations and skills you can install on demand, and can be connected into an existing infrastructure.
Deploy your first Hermes AI Agent in One Click
Deployment works exactly like the rest of our VPS products: choose your desired Hermes Agent VPS plan from our website, proceed to checkout and deploy. Within minutes you will have a running agent, ready to be pointed at whatever task you want to hand it first.
If you are not sure where and how to start, please contact us and we will get in touch to assist further.
