Need advice on hosting for n8n!

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Hello!

So… My company currently uses Make to automate Facebook Leads data processing, since I arrived I noticed Make has some limitations (such as the lack of script nodes) so I looked for alternatives and I ended up finding n8n. I set a self-host version with docker and been testing for like a month, now I would like to start hositng it on a server and put it running on production.

Something important to me will be to keep uptime as close to 100% as possible, since the data it’s key for our bussiness. So my first thought was to get into AWS and make use of Kubernetes, however I’ve been gathering information (since I am kind of new in this subject) and AWS might be insanely costly if I happen to configure something wrong (like I’ve seen stories of 45k+ bills).

My question is, is there a better alternative to host n8n? We use around 600k operation/month, I wanted to make sure I’m using a safe server and that it can support this amount of operations.

Information on your n8n setup

  • **n8n version:Latest
  • **Database (default: SQLite):Default
  • **n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):default
  • **Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):Docker
  • **Operating system:Windows
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Hi @Joao_Marques

Uptime like that is expensive en often not needed. From what you write here it sounds very much like overkill to have a very high uptime. As it would most likely not hurt the business if the leads are getting processed an hour later for example.
Any VPS will work or you can go for n8n cloud then you do not have to worry about all that, just like you do not have to with make.

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Hello @BramKn! Thanks for your answer.

I mean leads being 1 hour late might actually be an issue because our clients call centers usually need to contact the lead asap. But I do understand that maybe what I was aiming for is a bit overkill, if this happens rarely it should be not a big problem.

About the n8n cloud, I’ll ask for a custom price because 50 active workflows seem low for what I might need (enterprise value is too high), and also there’s something I need to make sure is that if I need to use extra workflow executions in specific months is it possible to up the subscription?

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You should be able to get custom pricing if you contact the sales team they should be able to help you out with that.