Serve a Local Model to Your Team (September 2026)
Auth, reverse proxy, HTTPS, concurrency and audit: how a small team shares one local model without exposing it to the public internet.
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Auth, reverse proxy, HTTPS, concurrency and audit: how a small team shares one local model without exposing it to the public internet.
Practical patterns for letting two to six people in one home share one local model on one machine, with the right chat UI, bind address, and overlay network.
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