Spun up an Oracle Ampere VPS — 2 OCPU, 12GB RAM, Mumbai region — for the Hermes Docker setup. Decided to use LiteBin (l8bin.com) as the deployment tool. Instead of running it standalone, I made this new VPS an agent node to my existing LiteBin master in Europe (Netcup VPS).

Didn't work. Jio (my ISP) has connectivity issues with European servers and the connection keeps timing out. Couldn't deploy the Hermes setup. Will retry tomorrow.

There's also a design issue with LiteBin I hit today. Right now, the agent node can only communicate through the master. So when I deploy an image, the tar file has to travel from my machine to Europe first, then from Europe to Mumbai. That's a lot of unnecessary latency.

I could fix this by making LiteBin talk to the agent directly during deployments. But that needs more planning. For now, I'll retry the deployment tomorrow and deal with the architecture later.