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This tutorial walks through installing the open source Community Edition of ActivePieces on a Hostinger VPS. The speaker presents it as an alternative to Zapier and Make and discloses that Hostinger sponsors the video. He describes the edition as free with unlimited flows; the walkthrough still requires a paid VPS.
The setup uses Hostinger hPanel. After selecting a VPS and installing Docker, the speaker opens Docker Manager, searches for ActivePieces under the one-click deployment option, and deploys it. He estimates that deployment takes three to five minutes. The initial account form asks for a name, email address, and administrator password.
The walkthrough then covers templates and a flow built from scratch. A webhook can receive a form submission, followed by a ChatGPT step for interpreting the question or performing sentiment analysis. That step requires an OpenAI API key. The example therefore uses an external AI service rather than demonstrating inference on the VPS. For the Google connection shown, the speaker describes signing into an account without manually obtaining API keys.
The interface tour includes CSV utilities, a data mapper, filters, and approvals. The speaker also claims that hosting on his own VPS is more secure, but the tutorial does not establish that claim through security testing.
