n8n is open-source automation software you can download and run yourself instead of paying for a subscription. Self-hosting on your computer avoids costs and rate limits, but external services like Gmail block localhost servers. Deploy it on a web host like Hostinger instead to get a public server for similar money while keeping unlimited workflows.
If you're looking to learn NAN but you don't really know what the whole self-hosted thing means, then let me break it down in 60 seconds. So NAN works like any other software company where you can come over to their website, you can pay them a monthly subscription for a set amount of usage. And all that means is just you're paying NAN to host it on their servers. But NAN is open source, which basically just means all of their code is publicly accessible for free. As you can see on GitHub, this is the entire platform. All of the code is here. And because all of that code is publicly accessible, it means you can just download it and just run it on your own computer. and as it's running on your own device, it means you don't have to pay anyone anything, and there's no rate limits on how much you can use it. You don't have to worry about things like workflow executions. But if you were to just download this and run it locally, you'd be running off what's called a localhost server. And when you try and communicate with other apps from that server, say for example Gmail, Gmail might recognize it's from a localhost server and block it. So what you can do is you can go over to something like Hostinger, and they basically just host it for you. You can pay about the same amount of money, be all the benefits of self-hosting, like unlimited executions and unlimited workflows.
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