I recently stumbled across n8n and am interested in learning it. I’d like to deploy the self hosted version to do so. In reviewing the documentation I see the npm and docker options, but I’m wondering about hosting with providers that have cpanel nodeJS packages? Is in installing nodeJS in a web hos…

Welcome to the community @nth ! Sorry, but with standard web hosting accounts you will not have any luck running n8n. You would need some kind of virtual servers from companies like Digital Ocean, Vultr, AWS, … Anyway if you just want to play around a little bit, you can also run it on your local …

Thanks @jan ! I suspected that but wanted to confirm. Yep I can spin up a local copy, but would have preferred to create a sandbox out on the web instead. I do see there are some providers (like Google Cloud Run ) that will host a docker container for free up to a certain number of CPU/Memory cycles…

Don’t forget that n8n’s own cloud solution has a free month/30 day test period which you can cancel at any time. I’m testing with it now to assess n8n and it’s very good. Also consider that it works off workflow executions and you get something like 5k in the first package tier which should defini…

@spessex Thanks! @nth Makes sense. Regarding cpanel some people got it to work: [image] N8n on cpanel Questions I managed to install n8n on cpanel, node.js 14.x, but don’t know what startup file to use in the node.js app to open it… anybody managed to successfully install…

You can try Hetzner. Best & Cheap alternative for DO, Vultr

Yes, can second that. They are great. Also seem to be performance-wise better.

Hetzner look to be quite a bit cheaper than DO, That is interesting I might move over.

can we host it on https://www.cyclic.sh/

while uploading n8n on cyclic.sh i am getting this error:- npm ERR! /tmp/nkmjan1992-n8n2/.npm/_logs/2023-02-08T20_08_22_168Z-debug-0.log 2023-02-09 01:42:14: [CYCLIC] Build Failed [1] [2] [3] [4]

Hey @nkmjan1992 , You can host n8n anywhere as long as you have experience with that host and managing a server. With your error I would suggest starting with using Node 16, I am not sure what the rest of the process is doing as there are no commands in the screenshots that I can see but as you are …

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@spessex Thanks!

@nth Makes sense. Regarding cpanel some people got it to work:

but I also expect that there are differences between providers and what they allow.
Anyway is for sure not the easiest way to run n8n.

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