AI agents and automation tools that run for hours need a machine that stays online even when the user’s laptop is off. NameHero’s answer is AI Agent Hosting, a VPS plan that arrives with one of six AI and automation apps already installed: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, n8n, Claude Code, Open WebUI or Docker. The customer picks the app at checkout, and the server keeps it running around the clock. Every app runs on the same plan, starting at $6.49 a month.
The service was already live when founder and chief executive Ryan Gray announced it on September 2, as the first step in a move into AI infrastructure alongside NameHero’s shared, reseller and VPS hosting, domains, email and game servers. His announcement puts the case for a dedicated server directly: “Agents and automation tools weren’t built for traditional hosting. They run jobs for hours, so request timeouts and execution limits kill them.”
Key facts
- The plan: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe storage and 4 TB of monthly transfer on a KVM server with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
- Price: $6.49 a month on a three-year term, with $233.77 billed upfront, against a base price of $9.99. One- and two-year terms save 15 and 25 percent.
- Model access: customers bring their own keys. NameHero supplies the server and the install, not access to Anthropic, OpenAI or other models.
- Where: data centers in Vint Hill, Virginia, and Hillsboro, Oregon.
Long Jobs, Lasting Memory and Round-the-Clock Running
Beyond jobs that run for hours, Gray’s announcement names two more needs. Agents need memory that survives a restart, with their context, history and vector stores kept on disk, and they need to run around the clock.
NameHero positions the VPS against serverless platforms, which in its description bill per invocation and per second and cap how long a single run can take, a model NameHero sees as better suited to short bursts than to long-running agents. The VPS has one flat monthly price, no execution limit and state that stays on disk between runs.
Six Apps, One Plan
Each app has its own product page, but all of them lead to the same server:
| App | What NameHero offers it for |
|---|---|
| OpenClaw | Multi-step agent workflows, connected to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord and Google Calendar |
| Hermes Agent | A self-hosted personal assistant with persistent memory and scheduled jobs, reachable over WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack |
| n8n | Workflow automation with always-on webhooks, scheduled runs and retries |
| Claude Code | A persistent coding environment for repository work, debugging and refactoring |
| Open WebUI | A self-hosted chat workspace for the models the customer chooses, shared across a team |
| Docker | Docker Engine and Compose ready at first login, with each app in its own container |
Source: NameHero product pages.
The app chosen at checkout is not a lock-in. In the overview page’s words: “Change it any time after ordering: it is your server.” More apps can run alongside the first one, limited only by the plan’s CPU, RAM and storage, and the list is not a boundary either: the servers are ordinary unmanaged VPS machines with SSH access, so anything that runs on Ubuntu can be installed. Apps that run entirely on the server need no other sign-up. Anything that calls a commercial model needs the customer’s own key, and Claude Code needs an Anthropic account, either a Claude subscription or an API key.
Flat Pricing Against Execution-Based Plans
The pricing comparison is most concrete on the n8n page. n8n’s own Starter cloud plan includes 2,500 workflow executions a month, and NameHero points out that a single workflow checking something every five minutes uses 8,640 on its own. According to the same page, the self-hosted n8n Community Edition carries no license fee under its Sustainable Use License and no platform limit on workflows or executions, so on the VPS the only constraints are CPU, RAM and storage. n8n Cloud is run by n8n, while the VPS is administered by the customer, so the comparison is between a managed cloud plan with execution limits and self-hosting the software on a VPS.
The other app pages draw similar comparisons with other kinds of platform. The Claude Code page describes managed development environments such as GitHub Codespaces as bringing usage-based billing, session limits and restrictions on what can be installed. The Docker page sets a flat monthly price against cloud container platforms that bill compute, egress bandwidth, load balancers and storage separately.
What the Customer Runs and What NameHero Runs
The servers are unmanaged. Customers get root access over SSH and a browser terminal in the client area. They handle the administration themselves, while NameHero’s support team covers the network and the hardware around the clock. App updates are the customer’s call, so an update never lands mid-task without the owner’s say-so, while infrastructure-level security patches apply automatically. Customers also handle their own backups, and NameHero recommends automating them to external storage.
The Hermes Agent page notes that a GPU is not needed when the agent calls hosted models from providers such as OpenAI or Anthropic. It matters only for running local models on the same server. Setup takes under five minutes, by NameHero’s account, and the plan carries a 99.9% uptime SLA, standard DDoS protection and a 30-day money-back guarantee, with CPU, RAM and storage upgradable later.
How NameHero Uses AI and What’s Next
NameHero has used AI in its own operations for the past year. According to Gray, the technology helps optimize, secure and scale the company’s private cloud in real time, with minimal human intervention and without replacing staff. NameHero already offers GPU hosting, and Gray presents AI Agent Hosting as a beginning: “This is just the first step. There’s a lot more coming.
