Self-hosted n8n for business: VPS cost, security, backups and GDPR

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“Self-hosted n8n is free” is true only about the licence. This article is about the rest — the server, the backups, the updates, and how much time it actually takes. The n8n Community Edition carries no licence fee when self-hosted — the source code is public and deploying it on your own server costs nothing. Running it is not zero, though. Budget for a small VPS (on the order of single-digit to low tens of euros a month), time for updates and working backups.

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