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Hostman now offers a fully managed AI Agents service that allows to create and deploy virtual assistants powered by generative AI models. Whether you need a support chatbot, an internal assistant, or a data-driven reporting tool, AI Agents can be configured, tested, and integrated from the Hostman platform. The service is designed to give teams flexibility: from quick API integration to embedding a ready-to-use chat widget into a website or product. Everything is managed directly from the Hostman Control Panel. What You Can Build with AI Agents AI agents are flexible by design. They can function as public-facing chatbots embedded in a website or as internal assistants integrated into business tools. We’ve prepared some common scenarios: Customer-facing assistants that provide consultations in chat format; Internal bots that analyze uploaded data and generate summaries; Onboarding assistants that guide new employees through training materials; AI-powered endpoints inside SaaS products. You are not limited to generic responses. Agents can use your own knowledge base, ensuring answers are aligned with your documentation, product logic, and company policies. Knowledge Bases and External Tools An AI agent becomes much more useful when it understands your context. With Hostman, you can create and connect knowledge bases so the model generates responses grounded in your own data. Beyond that, the platform supports MCP (Model Context Protocol). MCP allows agents to work with external tools rather than relying only on stored knowledge. Through an MCP server, an agent can perform web searches, connect to services like Notion, interact with documentation systems, or manage a browser session. The agent itself does not need to understand how those services are structured. It simply uses the tools made available by the MCP server and incorporates the results into its response. This approach makes it possible to build advanced workflows without turning your AI integration into a complex engineering project. Integration Options: API and Chat Widget Once your agent is configured, you can use it in different ways. Each agent receives its own API endpoint. Hostman supports two API formats: OpenAI-compatible API for integration with existing libraries and interfaces; Native API for simpler, faster integration without additional dependencies. This means your AI agent can connect to tools that already support the OpenAI API, including developer environments like VS Code extensions. If you do not need a backend integration, you can embed the agent directly into a website or application using a chat widget. This allows you to launch an AI-powered assistant without writing complex server-side logic. Full Control from the Playground to Production Before deploying an agent, you can test and fine-tune it in the built-in Playground. This sandbox environment allows you to experiment with system prompts, validate how the knowledge base influences responses, and check how the model behaves under different inputs. You can also attach text files and images, review chat history, manage access keys, and configure endpoints. Agents can be suspended temporarily or deleted at any time. If your usage grows, you can upgrade the plan or purchase additional token packages for the current month without changing your existing configuration. All of this is handled inside the Control Panel, giving you full visibility and control over how your AI assistant operates. Pricing, Tokens, and Scaling AI agents rely on large language models, and usage is measured in tokens. The documentation clearly explains how tokens are counted, which models are available, and how pricing works. When your workload increases, you can scale in a predictable way. Upgrade the agent’s plan or add more tokens without disrupting production. This makes it easier to experiment, launch, and then grow usage gradually as your product evolves. How to Get Started To create your AI agent on Hostman:  Log in to the Control Panel.  Go to the AI Agents section and click Create Agent or Add. Select the AI model for the agent. After the agent is created, the model cannot be changed. Choose a pricing plan based on the required number of tokens. You will be able to upgrade the plan later, but downgrading will not be possible. Provide a prompt for the agent. The prompt explains what the agent should do. The control panel includes several example prompts. You can review them to understand the recommended format or use them as a starting point and adjust them to your needs. Connect an existing knowledge base or create a new one. You can also add it later in the agent settings. Knowledge bases allow agents to generate more complete and accurate responses based on the data you provide. Examples of knowledge bases include product documentation, pricing information, or product catalogs. Fill in the agent information: a convenient name and a comment. Review all selected parameters, check the service cost, and click Order. Deployment will take a few minutes. After that, you can start working with the agent. If you need guidance at any step, the documentation provides detailed instructions on configuration, models, pricing, and API usage. Feel free to check our detailed instructions in the Documentation; and if your scenario requires a faster answer, our 24/7 live support team is ready to assist you directly in the online chat. Bringing AI Into Your Workflow Hostman AI Agents are designed for teams that want practical results. Whether you are building a customer support assistant, enhancing your SaaS product with AI endpoints, or creating internal automation tools, the platform gives you the structure to move from idea to production smoothly. You control the prompts, the data, the integrations, and the scaling. Hostman provides the infrastructure and the tools to make it work reliably. Deploy your first AI assistant in a couple of clicks.

We’re expanding our infrastructure lineup and launching bare-metal dedicated servers on Hostman! With this release, we’re giving teams direct access to physical servers while keeping the simplicity, transparency, and flexibility you’re used to in cloud environments. Bare metal is a logical next step for projects that require guaranteed performance, complete isolation, and hardware-level control. Our goal was to combine raw physical power with cloud-style management, fast provisioning, and real support that responds quickly when you need changes. You can choose from ready-made configurations or request a custom server tailored to your workload. If bare metal feels like more than you need right now, we still offer low-cost virtual dedicated servers that are well-suited for most everyday tasks. You can combine both approaches on a single platform and scale at your own pace. Features of Hostman Dedicated Servers We designed our dedicated servers around one key idea: you should be able to control your infrastructure at every level without unnecessary barriers. At the server level, you get full root access and a KVM console directly in the control panel. We don’t limit your choice of operating systems or software. You can install any OS, deploy your own stack, and use the server exactly as your project requires. Everything is accessible right from the browser, without additional tools or workarounds. At the hardware level, we keep things flexible. If you need additional gateways, more storage, or processor upgrades, you don’t have to migrate to a new server. You just reach out to our support team, explain what you need, and we handle the rest. We respond quickly and treat hardware changes as a routine part of infrastructure growth, not an exception. At the network level, we let you go far beyond a single data center. Dedicated servers can be connected to private networks for enhanced security and faster data transfer. What’s important is that private networking isn’t limited to our own facilities. You can connect servers across regions, integrate third-party data centers such as Google or Amazon, or link your own data center to the same private network. This makes it easy to build hybrid and multi-cloud architectures without complicated networking setups. Reliability is something we take seriously. We guarantee 99.98% uptime under our SLA and place servers only in Tier III data centers across America and Europe. These facilities use redundant power systems, stable communication channels, and modern monitoring tools. Before we deliver any server, we always run load testing. This helps ensure the hardware performs correctly under real-world workloads, not just on paper. When you receive the server, it’s ready for production from day one. We rely on enterprise-grade platforms from Supermicro, Intel, and Gigabyte. Available processors include Intel Xeon Gold 6140, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, and AMD EPYC 9354, so you can choose the architecture that best fits your workload. NVMe storage configurations are also available, delivering read and write speeds up to five times faster than traditional SSDs and keeping latency low even under heavy load. If you don’t see a configuration that fits your needs, that’s not a dead end. Just message us in online chat or send an email. We have many hardware options available and will find a solution that works for you. You can also check out our article on how to choose between cloud and dedicated servers for e-commerce hosting. How to Get Started With Bare Metal on Hostman We wanted getting started with bare metal to feel as simple as working with any other Hostman service. You begin in the Control Panel, where you can order a predefined server or request a custom configuration. Select your server region, operating system, and bandwidth option. Once the hardware is prepared and tested, it becomes available in your account. From there, everything is managed in one place. Using the built-in KVM console, you install the operating system, configure software, and manage the server directly in your browser. There’s no need for separate access tools or manual provisioning steps. If your project grows or requirements change, you don’t have to start over. You can upgrade hardware, adjust networking, or add components by contacting support. We handle changes without forcing downtime-heavy migrations whenever possible. If you already use our cloud services, dedicated servers can be added to existing projects and connected via private networks. This makes it easy to build a unified infrastructure that can combine databases, object storage, VPS, and bare metal in a single environment. Who It’s For Our dedicated bare metal servers are a good fit when you need predictable performance, strict isolation, and advanced networking. They work especially well for high-load databases, analytics systems, enterprise applications, game servers, and any workload where virtualization overhead is unacceptable. Teams building hybrid or multi-cloud setups often use our dedicated servers as a physical core connected to cloud resources across different providers. At the same time, we continue to offer affordable VPS for development, testing, web applications, APIs, and smaller production services. Many customers combine both models, running critical components on bare metal and supporting services on VPS. If you want to see how dedicated servers fit alongside our other solutions, take a look at the full range of offerings on the Hostman Products page and choose the setup that matches your goals today and tomorrow.

We're excited to announce the official Terraform provider for Hostman is now in the Terraform Registry! Deploy and manage your entire Hostman infrastructure using HashiCorp's powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. Whether you're spinning up cloud servers, configuring managed databases, or orchestrating Kubernetes clusters, our Terraform provider lets you define, version, and automate your cloud resources with precision and confidence. Complete Infrastructure Coverage Our Terraform provider brings the full power of Hostman's cloud platform into your HCL configuration files. You can now manage everything from basic cloud servers to complex Kubernetes deployments through code.  The provider covers core infrastructure resources like servers and storage, database management with automated backups, container orchestration through managed Kubernetes, and security features including firewalls and VPC networking. Instead of clicking through web interfaces or making individual API calls, you describe what you want in clean configuration files, and Terraform makes it happen. The provider includes comprehensive data sources that help you build dynamic configurations, pulling in available OS images, server presets, and configuration options automatically. Why Use Terraform with Hostman Let's imagine you're launching a new project and need a complete environment—application servers, a PostgreSQL database, and a firewall to keep everything secure. Without Infrastructure as Code, you'd spend time clicking through multiple interfaces, manually configuring each service, and hoping you remember all the settings when you need to recreate the environment. With our Terraform provider, that entire setup becomes a configuration file you can run anywhere, anytime. More importantly, it becomes documentation that lives with your code, showing exactly how your infrastructure is built and why certain decisions were made. Predictable deployments: Terraform's execution plans eliminate surprises. Before changing anything, you see exactly what will be created, modified, or destroyed. No more accidentally deleting the wrong database or misconfiguring a firewall rule. Multi-environment consistency: Deploy identical infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments. Change a few variables and replicate your entire stack with confidence, ensuring your testing environment truly mirrors production. Team collaboration made simple: Store your Terraform configurations in version control, enabling your entire team to track changes, review modifications, and collaborate on infrastructure updates. Every change becomes part of your project's history. Getting Started is Simple The beauty of Infrastructure as Code lies in its simplicity once you take the first step. Our Terraform provider is available directly from the Terraform Registry, ready to integrate into your existing workflows or help you start fresh with automated infrastructure management. Configuration follows Terraform's familiar patterns—you define resources using HCL syntax, specify dependencies, and let Terraform handle the complex orchestration behind the scenes. Whether you're provisioning a single server or deploying a multi-tier application with databases, load balancers, and storage, the process remains consistently straightforward. Our comprehensive quick start guide to Terraform on GitHub walks you through everything from initial setup to advanced configurations, with practical examples that you can adapt to your specific needs.  By the way, we recommend choosing a suitable cloud server plan now. Because once you start using Terraform, everything will go too fast to ponder... Ok, What About the Real-World Use Cases? Consider Sarah, a startup CTO who was spending hours each week manually provisioning development environments for her growing team. Every new developer needed their own isolated environment, and every feature branch required temporary infrastructure for testing. The manual process was eating into development time and creating inconsistencies between environments. After implementing our Terraform provider, Sarah's team can now spin up complete development environments with a single command. New developers get identical setups in minutes, feature branches get automatic infrastructure provisioning through CI/CD, and the entire team can focus on building features instead of managing servers. Development teams love the flexibility: Create isolated development environments for each team member or project branch. Tear them down when not needed and rebuild instantly when required, optimizing both costs and resource utilization. DevOps engineers appreciate the control: Build reusable infrastructure modules that enforce standards while allowing customization. Version your infrastructure alongside your applications, ensuring compatibility and reducing deployment risks. Startups benefit from speed: Launch your entire application stack—from servers to databases to storage—with tested, version-controlled configurations. Scale resources by modifying variables and reapplying, not by learning new interfaces. Advanced Capabilities for Growing Teams As your infrastructure needs evolve, our Terraform provider scales with you. The provider supports Terraform's advanced features like remote state management, workspace isolation, and module composition. You can build infrastructure libraries that your team shares and iterates on, creating a foundation that grows stronger with each project. Integration with CI/CD pipelines transforms infrastructure deployment from a manual bottleneck into an automated part of your development process. Provision staging environments for pull requests automatically, run infrastructure tests alongside your application tests, and deploy to production with the same confidence you have in your application code. The provider handles complex scenarios like managing database backups across multiple environments, configuring Kubernetes node groups with specific requirements, and setting up network security that adapts to your application's needs. Yet it keeps the simple things simple—deploying a basic web server still requires just a few lines of configuration. Start Your Infrastructure as Code Journey The Hostman Terraform provider represents more than just another deployment tool—it's a shift toward treating infrastructure with the same care and precision you apply to your application code. Your servers, databases, and networking become part of your project's source code, documented, tested, and versioned alongside everything else. Ready to transform your infrastructure management? Your journey from manual configuration to automated, version-controlled infrastructure starts with a single terraform init command. Visit the Hostman Terraform provider page on GitHub to explore the complete resource documentation and getting started guide, head on to our Terraform Registry listing, and start building a reliable infrastructure at lightning speed with Hostman.