
What a Private AI Workload Taught Us About Compute, Cost, and Control
We tested Ollama and Open WebUI on a 64 GB Intel VM in ZCP YUL-1. Here is what decision-makers should know about private AI, model size, cost, speed, and deployment fit.
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We tested Ollama and Open WebUI on a 64 GB Intel VM in ZCP YUL-1. Here is what decision-makers should know about private AI, model size, cost, speed, and deployment fit.

Why ZCP has a new visual mark for its developer-cloud direction, Canadian origin, and layered platform model.
Outbound SMTP on port 25 is blocked by default on ZCP compute instances. Use an authenticated relay on port 465 or 587, or request an exception for a production mail server.

A walk through the ZCP portal: projects, instances, marketplace images, storage, firewall rules, DNS, and billing in one account, plus the product rules behind the experience.

ZCP now has 64 marketplace application images. Launch databases, DevOps tools, monitoring, VPN, CMS, business apps, and AI tools from the portal with first-boot setup documented for you.
We packaged the Terraform we write for Apache CloudStack into reusable modules, scrubbed the internal specifics, and released them under MIT. Eight modules cover networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, and more. Validate them with no credentials.