Hi,
Is it necessary to host a server to use n8n
And if it’s necessary to host a server to use n8n how much do i have to pay for the server and is there a free servers?
And can n8n automates repetitive social media tasks while I am offline …what does it require to use n8n offline?
There are multiple options to using n8n, the main recomendations are:
- Paying for n8n cloud, the base plan should be more than enough for you’re needs at $20/month
- Self host with docker/docker compose on a VPS/server of your choosing. Much cheaper with not as many limits, but the drawback is minimal support and ensuring it remains up and not crashing etc.
But yes, you can certainly easily automation many repetitive social media tasks with n8n!
I’m running n8n on Hostinger’s VPS using their pre-installed n8n template. It operates 24/7 without any crashes so far, and as @ThinkBot pointed out, it’s significantly more affordable than n8n Cloud, starting at 4.99$/month. Plus, you get the added benefit of running Community Nodes on your self-hosted setup rather than on the cloud.
Yeah, many clients use Google Cloud Platform or AWS. Server cost is usually 5-20 a month instead of 120/m minimum on cloud plans (for their needs).
I host our own internal n8n on a dedicated server, allocating nearly 40gb of ram to it.
Cloud is very easy to use though also no need to maintain it.
I use selfhosted as well, but you cannot really just look at the price. There is other factors. 
Of course if you have some technical knowledge/experience you can host yourself, but please don’t do this if you have no idea what you are doing.
There is many people on the community that posted things like data loss. And that was all because they hosted themselves, did something wrong and then lost all their work.
So yeah host your self if you have the experience, but stick to cloud if you have none.
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Hey, seeing that you are using Hostinger and Nodes.
Trying to make MPC work with the command “N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ALLOW_TOOL_USAGE=true”
But I still get the error “Unrecognized node type: n8n-nodes-mcp.mcpClientTool”
Could you help? What’s the step you’ve done to make it work :))))
Where have you put “- N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ALLOW_TOOL_USAGE=true”?
In short, you should access your Hostinger’s VPS terminal with “Browser terminal” or SSH, once you do that, then locate docker-compose.yml file, and run nano docker-compose.yml
After that in the n8n environment section you should paste
- N8N_COMMUNITY_PACKAGES_ALLOW_TOOL_USAGE=true
save the file by pressing Command + X then Y and Enter.
After that, restart the docker with sudo docker composer down command. Then get back to the n8n, refresh the site, and it should work.
If not, can you say exactly what you’ve tried already?