Cloud Basics · ~8 min · 1 quick checks
Where should your agent live?
The architecture decision every agent builder faces — where does it run?
- Laptop — free, but sleeps when you do. For development only.
- VPS — ~$5/mo, always on, simple, fixed capacity. Chuck's choice for Hermes; AgentCraft's choice too.
- Cloud — elastic, service-rich, per-use billing. Wins when you're serving many users or need to scale.