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As the title says, i started by selfhosting OpenWebUI including Ollama on my RIG. I have been pretty happy but the more i dig into this stuff, more i understand that i am doing it wrong and i definitely need to switch to llama.cpp / ik_llama.cpp.

But i have a few questions...

  1. I want a web based LLM chat GUI, because that's my 80% usage for AI. If i go with llama.cpp, do i need to ditch OpenWebUI as well? Is there a better UI? Do i need an UI?

  2. i am currently hosting it all with a docker compose file. Is this still doable if i switch? I can go bare-metal (Gentoo server, good skills on my side) but it's the maintenance part, a "podman compose pull" is just easier... or i am lazy.

My hardware is a NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB VRAM on a I7-8700@3200Ghz with 64GB system RAM (shared with far too many services).

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[โ€“] doodlebob@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sure can! And it supports SO many backends so you can run llama.cpp (pulled directly from the repo and auto updated so you have access to all of the new features right away)

[โ€“] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 1 month ago

I gave it a spin today and pretty happy so far. Took a bit to run, llama.cpp got installed broken and had to reinstall it ...

But it pretty much replaced my entire openwebui+ollama stack with something seemingly much more capable and open.