OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent: how it works, self-hosting it, its security risks and hardening it.
Self-host OpenClaw from zero to production. Server provisioning, SSH lockdown, Docker, reverse proxy, Fail2ban, performance tuning, and full backup strategy in one guide.
Here's the complete patch-status and lockdown guide, including the systemd hardening, origin validation, env-variable command injection fix, ClawHub skill safety, and how to tell if you've already been hit.
Build a production-grade self-hosted AI agent from scratch using Docker Compose. Covers the full stack — Ollama, n8n, Flowise, Qdrant, SearXNG, Langfuse, and Redis.
A retired Austrian developer built an open-source AI agent for fun in November 2025. Within 90 days, Jensen Huang called it the most successful open-source project in human history.
ChatGPT went down 28,000-report strong in February 2026. Claude had back-to-back outages within 24 hours in March. GitHub logged 37 incidents in a single month and is running at 90.21% uptime — one nine, not three. AI agents aren't just using infrastructure.
