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Self-hosting n8n: the easy way

Jonas Scholz on April 01, 2025

n8n is the hottest "ai native" automation tool on the market right now. Basically no-code for AI workflows, BUT the pricing can be a bit daunting, ...
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Đăng Tú

Is there any option to do that on localhost only?

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Ranjan Dailata
  • Install latest NodeJS
  • npm install n8n -g
  • n8n start
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Jonas Scholz

I'd recommend using Docker even if its a local setup:)

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Ranjan Dailata

Sure, but why Docker? any specific reason for local setup?

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Đăng Tú

It saves you from a hellish life. Can you imagine one broken update of your test server that brings down your whole computer? Moreover - we, dev, usually don't have just 1 local server. Can you imagine conflict between these local servers =))

That's why mate.

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Ranjan Dailata

Well, I was asking in the context of n8n. Unless you are one of those CORE developer of n8n, there is no way anyone would update the n8n source code mate!

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Ali Raza

How about Hetzner ?

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Jonas Scholz

Writing a tutorial for that right now!

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robert sallo

Naive question, does the n8n community version have the same connectors / integrations than the commercial one? Thanks!

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Jonas Scholz

Yes! You can see what is missing here (docs.n8n.io/hosting/community-edit...), although I don't think these features matter for most people:)