Ageron Handson ml by ageron

DEPRECATED - See https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml3 or handson-mlp instead.

tensorflowscikit-learnmachine-learningpythondeep-learningneural-networkmldistributedjupyter-notebookdeprecated
Verdict 52/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty

Self-host Ageron Handson ml on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
52 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
26k
13k forks

About Ageron Handson ml

From the project's README at github.com/ageron/handson-ml. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

This project is for the first edition, which is now outdated (it came out in 2017).

This project aims at teaching you the fundamentals of Machine Learning in python. It contains the example code and solutions to the exercises in my O'Reilly book Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow:

[](https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learning/9781491962282/) Quick Start Want to play with these notebooks online without having to install anything? Use any of the following services.

WARNING: Please be aware that these services provide temporary environments: anything you do will be deleted after a while, so make sure you download any data you care about.

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
38
maturity
30
community
77
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
43

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

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GitHub stars 26k github.com/ageron/handson-ml
GitHub forks 13k github.com/ageron/handson-ml
Docker Hub pulls 508 hub.docker.com / ageron

Release & maintenance

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Project age10.2 yearssince Feb 2016
Last commit2 months agoMar 19, 2026

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

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hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
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