Discover how to self-host and fully optimize the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B model on a budget-friendly AMD EPYC CPU-only VPS. This comprehensive, step-by-step technical guide covers everything from instruction set compilation (AVX2/AVX-512) to advanced model quantization and production-ready serving with llama.cpp, allowing you to bypass expensive GPU costs while maintaining impressive token-per-second performance.