Budget: 50 USD Deadline: 1 day
Hello, Dmitry!
I run OpenClaw on the server myself: several agents in parallel, cron jobs, browser automation. That's why I'm writing not from the documentation, but from my own experiences.
What I will do.
Server. The main expense here is not CPU, but RAM. Each agent, if it accesses the browser, consumes 1.5-2 GB. On a 1 GB VPS, everything will crash due to OOM within the first day. For several parallel agents, I usually take 4-8 GB of RAM and 2-4 vCPUs, NVMe, plus swap or zram for peaks. I will adjust it to your load. A regular VPS will suffice; you don't necessarily need special hosting for agents.
Environment. Node LTS, installation, auto-start via systemd, so it restarts itself after reboots and crashes. Logs and rotation, so the disk doesn't fill up within a month.
API. I will connect the key, set up the models. I store keys in a separate repository, not in shell history.
Parallelism. This is usually where everything breaks down. I assign profiles and ports to agents, set locks so that two do not fight over one browser and do not write to one file. Without this, agents quietly disrupt each other's work, and it takes weeks to catch it.
A question for the matter: how many agents do you plan to run simultaneously, and will they access the browser? The difference between "4 GB will be enough" and "16 GB is needed" is exactly in this. And secondly: subscription or API via tokens? The setup differs.
Regarding the budget, $50, as in the budget. I'm free today, work will take about a day.
I am ready to show live how several agents run on one server. I will send it in the chat, you can take a look before making a decision.
Petr Pankov, BotCraft Group