Schedule trigger in n8n not working correctly

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Hi Guys, I am trying to set up a workflow with the aim of automating blogposts articles to my website. Manually this is working. I am using Docker and a docker-compose file to set things up. Howeverm the thing only works manually or if I change the time interval to five minutes and keep laptop and docker open. I want to publish one article a day. This does not work. Is it even possible to arrange this with n8n/docker set-up?

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Hi Guys, I am trying to set up a workflow with the aim of automating blogposts articles to my website. Manually this is working. I am using Docker and a docker-compose file to set things up. However the thing only works manually or if I change the time interval to five minutes and keep laptop and docker open. I want to publish one article a day. This does not work. Is it even possible to arrange this with n8n/docker set-up?verm the thing only works manually or if I change the time interval to five minutes and keep laptop and docker open. I want to publish one article a day. This does not work. Is it even possible to arrange this with n8n/docker set-up?

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Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: Latest
  • Database (default: SQLite): ??
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
  • Operating system: Windows
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Hi @David754

The issue is that you’re running Docker on your laptop. when your laptop sleeps or Docker Desktop closes, n8n stops and scheduled triggers can’t fire.

So to make n8n running 24/7, you have to keep laptop awake which is not practical long term, or move to n8n cloud or any VPS.

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Hi Houda, thanks so much, is the only solution to start working via cloud hosted (paid) version to avoid this?

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No, it’s not the only solution. Look for Oracle Cloud, i think it’s always free. If you’d rather pay a small amount for something more reliable, VPS providers start at around 4 euros/month.

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Hi @David754 Welcome!
Considering your use case, i would highly recommend you to go with the cloud plan, also if you are not willing to pay, you can consider some of these (VPS):

And what i mean with this is that if your use case is not that heavy you can just get yourself a starter VPS and just run n8n there and mostly things would work really easily.

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Thanks Anshul, doing so indeed. Many thanks for the aid

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