About Open WebUI HQ
Open WebUI HQ covers one stack in detail: Open WebUI as a self-hosted chat front end, the model backend behind it (usually Ollama), and the retrieval, memory and networking behaviour that sits between the two. Installing it, connecting it, sizing it, and fixing it when the model list comes back empty.
It is for people assembling a self-hosted chat front end and trying to work out which component owns which behaviour, because that is the question almost every symptom reduces to. Articles are written against the Open WebUI, Ollama and Docker project documentation and cite the pages they draw on.
What is covered here
- Comparisons
- Getting Started
- Guides
- Operations
- Troubleshooting
Where to start
- Installing Open WebUI with Docker - image tags, the data volume, and the reverse-proxy settings a public instance needs.
- Open WebUI not connecting to Ollama - the four causes of an empty model list, in checking order.
- Open WebUI compared with LibreChat - install footprint, configuration model, retrieval and licence terms.
- VRAM and context sizer - an estimate of what a given model, quantization and context length will need, before you pull anything.
7 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the Open WebUI HQ Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@openwebuihq.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
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Related sites
Open WebUI HQ is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- OllamaLab - Local LLM hardware and inference speed.
- RAGStackGuide - Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation & Vector Indexing.
- LangChainGuide - LangChain agents, retrieval and token cost
- VectorOpsReport - Vector Database HNSW Index & ANN Performance Report
- LM Studio Guide - Local LLM Desktop Runners, GGUF Quantization Profiles & Apple Metal GPU Acceleration
Contact
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