Help for a beginner to install on windows

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Hello

I have a Premium subscription with hostinger to host several sites and they told me that with this plan I cannot install n8n
Apparently you need a VPS? but I don’t understand anything about it, I just understand the main thing is that I have to take another plan

(for the moment I had hosted it on renter but apparently the free hosting is only valid for one week?)

at the moment I don’t need it and I would simply like to host it on Windows 10, I downloaded node JS, I’m not sure I’m doing the following correctly, should I launch the terminal and then copy and paste the command prompt into my windows terminal?

I ask this question because that’s what he does in this video from 2 minutes 20
It’s on Mac but I seem to remember that I saw a tutorial in which the YouTuber said that it’s the same on Windows?

but in this tutorial

the guy does it differently and I don’t have the level to understand

Thank you for your help

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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

  • n8n version:
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
  • Operating system:
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I’m a beginner as well. I got it working with Docker on my Windows 10 following these steps.

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I would also use the Docker approach it will be a lot easier and you can just use one of the compose options.

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I’m agree with @Jon

However self-hosting is an option for those who knows what they are doing.

Small hint: better and easier to be friends with docker, don’t try the bare NodeJS approach, you won’t like it.

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and now I’m redirected on my browser
so does it mean I just have to connected to my account
and when I restart my computer what I have to do ?
should I lauch the cmd ? otherwise I can not use n8n ?

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npm is asking if you want to install n8n. press the y key, and press enter, to install and start n8n.

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I just corrected my previous message and regarding the installation there is something that I still don’t understand it’s docker for desktop, so that means that this is hosted locally? So what is the method with node JS and npm that I did?

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