OpenClaw and Hermes on One VPS: What It Costs to Link Two Agents Securely
A user set up OpenClaw and Hermes agents on a single VPS, connecting them so that OpenClaw receives tasks from Telegram and Hermes executes them in its sandbox. Within an hour of installation, the user discovered the agent control panel was exposed to the internet, and half an hour later found that there was no firewall on the server at all. The article is a chronicle of several evenings about how dangerous an AI agent can be on one's own server and how much it costs to set it up properly.
The author installed two AI agents, OpenClaw and Hermes, on a single VPS and connected them: OpenClaw accepts tasks from Telegram, and Hermes executes them in its sandbox. Shortly after installation, the author found that the agent control panel was open to the internet, and then realized there was no firewall on the server at all. The article chronicles the events of several evenings, detailing the dangers of running an AI agent on a personal server and the costs associated with configuring it securely.
- Abbreviations
- VPS = Virtual Private Server — виртуальный частный сервер
Source: Habr — хаб ИИ —
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