An agency owner recently lost three days of client leads because their webhooks were quietly pointing to localhost. The n8n instance itself showed zero errors the entire time.
That is the real risk with self-hosting n8n. The Community Edition costs nothing, but you often pay for
Analytics, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, transactional email... most of them cost $10 to $50 each and rely heavily on per-seat billing.
For a small, growing team, that bill creeps up to $200 to $500 per month. None of it feels like a deliberate choice. You just add a tool here,
Most AI assistants forget you when you close the tab. OpenHuman doesn't; it builds a memory from your documents and emails and still knows the context weeks later.
Self-host it, and that memory stays on a server you own. The build is where people get burned: the core is written
