A practical readiness checklist for small businesses considering a self-hosted LLM in 2026, covering privacy, cost, hardware, access control, operations, and when managed AI tools are still the better fit.
Look, I’m gonna be straight with you—I love the cloud, but the bills hit harder than west-coast gas prices. That’s why I dove head-first into Ollama Tutorial territory last winter. Picture me huddled in a Vancouver coffee shop, snow outside, fan noise inside, watching a 70 B model answer questions locally while my hotspot slept. Pure magic. Ready for that feeling? Let’s roll. 1. Why Ollama Beats Cloud-Only AI Before we geek out, a quick pulse check on why this framework matters: Latency ≈ 0 ms* (okay, more like 30 ms) — responses appear before your finger leaves the Enter key. No API-metered costs. Run infinite tokens without sweating your OpenAI bill. Privacy by default. Your data never exits your...
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