Self-Hosting AI the Right Way

This is a complete, free walkthrough for deploying a production-ready local LLM stack on Rocky Linux 9 — with Ollama serving models, Open WebUI providing a ChatGPT-like interface, nginx handling SSL and WebSocket streaming, GPU passthrough for hardware acceleration, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, and SELinux enforcing throughout.

Every step includes verification commands so you know it worked before moving on. By the end, you’ll have a self-hosted AI stack that runs on a single host, survives reboots, and gives you full visibility into what your hardware is doing.