AI and agents

OpenClaw on your own cloud server

A server that keeps your personal AI agent awake around the clock, so it can answer in your chats even when your laptop is closed.

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About OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant. Instead of living in a browser tab, it runs as a long-lived gateway and talks to you through messaging apps you already use, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord or Slack. The thinking is done by a language model of your choice, for example from Anthropic or OpenAI.

What separates it from a plain chatbot is that it can act: draft messages, work with files, browse the web, run commands and remember context between conversations. Its abilities grow through skills written by the community or by you.

People move OpenClaw to a server for two reasons. An agent is only useful if it is running when a message arrives, and a separate machine keeps its access to commands and files away from your personal computer.

What people use it for

An assistant inside your messenger

Ask questions, set reminders and get summaries in the chat app you check anyway, without opening another website.

Routine work while you are offline

Let the agent prepare a morning digest or sort incoming requests on a schedule, since the server never goes to sleep.

A safe place for an agent with real access

Give the agent a shell and files on a separate server, so its experiments never touch your own laptop.

After you order

OpenClaw is installed on your server on its first start, and no ports are opened to the internet: its control page listens only on the server itself. To reach it, run the SSH tunnel command shown in the Rivervo panel (ssh -N -L 18789:127.0.0.1:18789 root@ followed by your server address) and open http://127.0.0.1:18789/ in your browser. The panel also shows the gateway token you sign in with.

How it works

Choose OpenClaw on the server order page and pick a plan with enough memory.
The app is installed on the server on its first start, usually within a few minutes.
Open the server in your panel: the address and the sign-in details are there.

Questions about OpenClaw

The language model runs at the AI provider you connect, so the server only hosts the agent itself. The minimum is 2 GB of memory and 20 GB of disk; choose a larger plan if the agent will run browser tasks or many skills at once.

The control page is deliberately kept off the public internet. An agent that can run commands should not expose its dashboard to everyone, so access goes through an SSH tunnel from your own computer.

Yes. OpenClaw is available on both x86 and ARM plans, so you can choose by price and performance.