Ask HN: Self-hosting LLMs, is it worth the setup?

1 points by sb13 ↗ HN
With the advent of DeepSeek, I was thinking if I should consider self-hosting open source LLMs vs using OpenAI APIs. Who here has done this already? And what are your main reasons, privacy or cost?

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people have been doing this for a while now? cost is one factor obviously, but privacy, security, and offline use comes to mind.
I was thinking more about them in my cloud environment. Was it easy to setup and maintain for you?
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