Looking for Production-Ready n8n Hosting Recommendations
I’m seeking advice on the best hosting solutions for running n8n in a production environment. My use case involves:
Connecting n8n to multiple external services
Handling 100-1,000 daily users making webhook calls to workflows, around a total of maximum 3,000 daily webhook calls i would guess.
Requiring 24/7 uptime and reliability
Current Setup & Issues: I’m currently using a Google Cloud VM (free tier), but it’s proving unreliable with frequent crashes - though I suppose that’s expected from a free service.
What I’m Looking For:
Cost-efficient hosting solutions
Reliable uptime for production workloads
Scalable to handle the user load mentioned above
I’d love to hear about your production setup, what hosting providers, server configurations, and architectures have worked well for you? Any recommendations for balancing cost-effectiveness with reliability would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!
Edit: After discussing options with Claude, it recommended Railway for hosting. Has anyone here had positive experiences with their service? Based on my calculations, their Hobby plan wirth $5 credits per month should be more than sufficient for my use case which is 1.5-2$ per month according to my calculations.
you can get a decent instance for ~15€/month which will handle thousands of requests easily, none of my customers every had issues with performance.
In my opinion such a fixed-price is far more attractive than paying Google, AWS and also a lot easier to set-up.
CPX31 or CPX21
depending on where you want the server located. with CPX31 is ~13€/month. I also run coolify on top of some of these server so I can deploy multiple n8n-instances on the same machine. They can handle 4-6 individual n8n-instances with decent traffic and on top of you can auto-deploy / update everything if needed (though some knowledge/skills are required for that but assuming you talk about a production-environment you know what you do)
I thought I’d give an update after roughly one month of using Railway. I can’t say I would recommend it. Sure, the product works, but I’ve had other things to focus on, so my project has basically been idle for almost a month and the cost of just sitting idle has already reached $10 on my $5 plan + “pay as you go”, and that’s without any workflows running. I’ll be looking for another solution because Railway definitely isn’t the right fit for me.
Edit: After discussing options with Claude, it recommended Railway for hosting. Has anyone here had positive experiences with their service? Based on my calculations, their Hobby plan wirth $5 credits per month should be more than sufficient for my use case which is 1.5-2$ per month according to my calculations.