VPS Huginn
VPS Huginn: Your Personal Automation Server
With Huginn, you can deploy complex, self-hosted agents for almost anything, but to truly leverage its power, you need a hosting environment that provides predictable performance and dedicated resources.
The OVHcloud VPS for Huginn gives you the dedicated hosting environment needed to run your agents 24/7/365 without interruption, while ensuring 100% of your data remains under your ownership and control. Start hosting your own powerful, private, and customizable automation engine today.
Explore OVHcloud VPS Solutions for Huginn
To deploy Huginn as a self-hosted service, Huginn requires dedicated resources that scaled-down or shared hosting simply cannot provide.
Our VPS plans offer a powerful combination of vCores, RAM, and ultra-fast storage so you can keep your agents constantly running, monitoring, and acting on data. For container-based deployments, using a VPS Docker environment simplifies installation and maintenance.
You can also deploy Huginn on a stable Linux distribution such as VPS Debian.
Choose the plan that best matches the complexity and frequency of your automation goals, whether you start with a Cheap VPS or a more powerful configuration listed among our Best VPS list.
Key Benefits of Hosting Huginn on a VPS
Complete Data Privacy
Unlike using proprietary SaaS automation platforms, hosting Huginn on your own OVHcloud VPS guarantees full data sovereignty. Data streams, API credentials, and monitoring logs all reside entirely on your self-hosted server, located in the region of your choice. It’s a critical advantage for compliance-conscious open source users seeking open source transparency.
Unlimited Workflow Execution
Deploy self-hosted automation agents without worrying about throttling or a subscription cap. Our dedicated VPS servers unlock unlimited workflow execution, giving you the freedom to run as many agents as your server resources allow. This approach is particularly effective for high-volume tasks such as web scraping, complex data transformations, or real-time event monitoring.
Custom Scripting
Huginn is built for advanced users who need flexibility. Hosting it on an OVHcloud VPS gives you root access to the operating system, allowing you to install additional libraries, customise system settings, and run custom scripts alongside your agents. This level of control is not available on closed SaaS platforms and enables deeper integration with your existing tools and services.
Why Choose OVHcloud for Huginn?
High Uptime Guarantee
Automation workflows depend on availability. OVHcloud VPS solutions are backed by a 99.9 % Service Level Agreement (SLA), ensuring reliable connectivity and hardware availability. This stability is essential for Huginn agents that need to monitor data sources and trigger actions continuously. Built-in Anti-DDoS protection further secures your automation infrastructure.
Easy Docker Deployment
The most reliable way to use and deploy Huginn is using its official Huginn open-source Docker image, and that’s simple with OVHcloud. Choose a distribution with Docker pre-installed directly upon VPS provisioning, eliminating the complexities of manual cloud installation, dependencies, and managed service configuration. Quickly pull the Huginn image you need and launch your containers with a simple Docker service.
Cost-Effective Performance
OVHcloud benefits from full vertical integration, from server manufacturing to global network management. This allows us to offer a strong price-to-performance ratio across our VPS open-source ecosystem, including VPS n8n and VPS Debian solutions.
While tools like n8n focus on visual, integration-driven workflows, Huginn follows a different approach. It is built around autonomous, event-driven agents designed for advanced monitoring, web scraping, and long-running background automation. Hosting Huginn on an OVHcloud VPS gives you the dedicated resources required to run these agents continuously, with full control over execution logic, data flows, and system-level customization. You get dedicated vCores, generous RAM, and NVMe storage at a predictable monthly cost.
How to Deploy Huginn on a VPS
Deploying Huginn on an OVHcloud VPS is straightforward:
- Choose your VPS plan based on your expected workload and agent complexity.
- Select your operating system (OS), ideally a Linux distribution with Docker support.
- Connect securely to your VPS via SSH using your root credentials.
- Deploy Huginn using Docker, configuring environment variables for the database and application settings.
- Access the Huginn web interface via your VPS IP address and start building your automation agents.
This approach gives you a reproducible and maintainable deployment that can evolve with your needs.
Typical Huginn Use Cases on a VPS
Huginn is particularly well suited for automation scenarios that require continuous monitoring, event-driven logic, and full control over data and execution. Hosted on an OVHcloud VPS, it can support a wide range of concrete, production-ready use cases.
Competitive Price Monitoring with Alerts
Huginn agents can regularly scrape competitor websites, marketplaces, or APIs to track product prices. When a price change or threshold is detected, agents can trigger alerts via email, webhooks, or internal dashboards. This use case is common in e-commerce and procurement, where timely price intelligence supports faster decision-making.
Website Change Detection and Incident Alerts
Huginn can monitor specific pages, HTML elements, or feeds to detect content changes, availability issues, or unexpected modifications. This makes it useful for uptime-related alerts, regulatory page monitoring, or content integrity checks. Event-driven agents can notify teams immediately when changes occur, without relying on external SaaS monitoring tools.
Security and Compliance Monitoring
For security-focused teams, Huginn can aggregate and monitor RSS feeds, CVE databases, and vendor security advisories. Agents can correlate events, filter by severity or affected components, and trigger alerts or internal workflows. Hosting Huginn on a VPS ensures that sensitive security monitoring data remains fully under your control.
CI/CD or Webhook-Based Automation
Huginn integrates easily with webhook-based systems. It can receive events from CI/CD pipelines, repositories, or internal tools, then trigger follow-up actions such as notifications, audits, or environment checks. This makes it a flexible automation layer for technical teams that need lightweight, event-driven orchestration outside traditional SaaS workflows.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Huginn?
Huginn is an open-source automation platform that allows you to create agents that monitor and act on your behalf online. These agents can watch websites, APIs, RSS feeds, or events and trigger actions such as sending notifications, calling webhooks, or executing scripts. Huginn is fully self-hosted and highly customisable.
How does Huginn compare to Zapier?
The key difference between the Huginn and Zapier services is control and the open hosted architecture. Zapier is a commercial, cloud-based SaaS managed platform known for its ease of use and extensive instances of pre-built integrations. However, it operates on a subscription instance with task limits and holds all your data and credentials.
In contrast, Huginn is 100% free and open-source. When you host Huginn on your OVHcloud VPS, you gain:
- Data sovereignty : All your data, logs, and sensitive API keys stay entirely on your server, not a third party's cloud.
- Unlimited worflows : you are limited only by your OVHcloud VPS ressources
- Deeper customization: Huginn is built for technical users and allows for native open web scraping, conditional logic, custom scripting (JavaScript/CoffeeScript), and complex multi-step dashboard workflows that often require premium or code-based tiers in Zapier.
How much RAM does Huginn need?
Huginn is a really robust application, and its RAM requirements are tied directly to the number and complexity of the agents you run. While simple, experimental managed setups have been reported to function with as little as 1 GB RAM on a cheap VPS, the community generally recommends a minimum of 2 GB of RAM to run essential services (like the database and worker processes) without service slowdowns.
For serious, high-volume, daily, or mission-critical automation, especially those involving heavy data scraping or frequent checks, 4 GB of managed RAM or more is highly recommended to ensure consistent, predictable hosted cloud performance 24/7. Our VPS-2 cloud plan starts at 12 GB RAM, a change that gives you plenty of headroom for services.