How to Deploy Llama 3.2 11B with GGUF Quantization on a $5/Month DigitalOcean Droplet: Production Inference Without GPU Costs

This article details how to deploy the Llama 3.2 11B model with GGUF quantization on a low-cost DigitalOcean Droplet for production inference. It demonstrates significant cost savings compared to paid AI APIs, while maintaining good performance on CPUs.