Running Open WebUI: ChatGPT Interface for Your Local Models

You’ve got Ollama running. You’re pulling models, chatting through curl commands in your terminal. It works, but let’s be honest — typing JSON into a terminal isn’t exactly the ChatGPT experience. Open WebUI (formerly Ollama WebUI) gives you a polished, feature-rich chat interface for your local models. It looks and feels like ChatGPT, but everything runs on your hardware. Conversations stay private. Models run offline. And it’s packed with features that even OpenAI’s interface doesn’t have. ...

February 11, 2026 · 7 min · Self Host Setup

Running Ollama: Local LLMs on Your Own Hardware

Running large language models locally used to require a PhD and a five-figure GPU budget. Not anymore. Ollama makes running LLMs on your own hardware as simple as ollama run llama3 — no API keys, no cloud costs, no data leaving your network. In this guide, you’ll set up Ollama on your server, run popular models, expose an OpenAI-compatible API, and integrate it with tools like Open WebUI for a full ChatGPT replacement you own. ...

February 9, 2026 · 6 min · Self Host Setup