How to run Hermes agents 24/7 without maintaining a VPS.

Local Hermes

Local Hermes is practical while designing prompts, tools, and workspace behavior. It becomes limiting when uptime and shared operations matter.

• Good for development and local testing.
• Easy to inspect files directly.
• Tied to your device, power, network, and local credentials.

Hermes on your own VPS

A VPS is flexible, but it shifts runtime operations onto your team.

• You configure the OS, runtime, process manager, secrets, and logs.
• You maintain updates, backups, restart behavior, and security posture.
• You need a rollback plan when an agent or dependency breaks.

Managed Hermes on Qoren

Qoren is built for hosted Hermes agents that need ongoing operation. The product handles the environment while you handle the agent's purpose and permissions.

• Deploy a Hermes agent to a managed environment.
• Configure schedules, triggers, tools, and secrets from the dashboard.
• Monitor usage and activity without living in server logs.

What to make explicit

A hosted Hermes agent should have a clear scope. Define what it can read, what it can write, when it runs, how much it can spend, and what events require human review.