I searched the classroom lessons for what self-hosters keep asking about on the n8n forum, and kept only what no course covers yet. Four things came out on top. Premium and VIP members pick which one I build next. 1. Lock down your n8n The courses secure your server and your Cloudflare edge. None of them secure n8n itself. This covers n8n's built-in security audit, which nodes to allow, protecting public webhooks, hiding what executions store, and what to do the day a security advisory lands. 2. Workflows that don't fail silently The worst failure is the one that says "success" and does nothing. This covers heartbeats, checking the result and not just the status, one alert per incident instead of hundreds, never processing the same thing twice, stopping a slow schedule from overlapping itself, and a safe replay queue. 3. n8n as your AI's toolbox n8n can be an MCP server, so Claude or any MCP client can call your workflows as tools. This covers exposing a workflow, putting it behind auth and your proxy, connecting a client, and making the agent ask you before it does anything it can't undo. 4. Your homelab security watch Use n8n to watch everything else you run: certificates and domains about to expire, new CVEs for the images in your compose files, breach alerts for your addresses, readable DMARC reports, and a check on suspicious links. The poll is open for 7 days. Everyone can vote, but only Premium and VIP votes are counted: the course vote is a Premium benefit. Free members, vote anyway: it tells me what you'd upgrade for. Premium members get the winner first. Picked one? Tell me in the comments what you'd use it for. If it's a tie, the option with more Premium and VIP members saying they'd use it wins, one per member. Still tied, I pick. The runner-up goes on the next vote. Pick one.

Everything on the pricing cards, in full. Each tier includes everything in the tier below it. FREE: $0 → 4 full starter courses: Docker and Self-Hosting Essentials, Portainer and Dockge, Cloudflare, DNS and Security, and Local LLMs with Ollama → Done in that order, they take you to a working homelab running local AI → The n8n Self-Hosting Guide in PDF and EPUB, in the Start Here course → The community feed, and the Help category for when something breaks → A live accountability call every Monday morning → Answers when I get to them. Premium gets a 24-hour promise → Reach Level 3 and a bonus course unlocks: When Self-Hosted n8n Breaks, now three lessons → A weekly "what broke this week" post, rounding up the Help threads → A starter compose file for the four free courses, in Docker and Self-Hosting Essentials, Lesson 8 PREMIUM: $97 a month or $970 a year Renews automatically at this price each month (or year) until you cancel. Cancel any time in Skool settings. Live now: → All 34 courses, 330+ written lessons → Every post answered within 24 hours → A live call every weekday morning → 105 verified startup credits and deals → One async config review a month: send a compose file, get written notes back. How to ask: Review kit → Early access to new courses, as a beta reader before anyone else → Annual members: a written review of your stack once a year. How to ask: Review kit → Production stack templates: tested Docker Compose stacks for n8n on Postgres with runners, HTTPS, backups and Ollama, re-tested every month → An importable n8n workflow library, each workflow with a setup note → Client kit: proposal template, maintenance retainer, pricing calculator and handover runbook

Some of you are here to learn this properly. Some of you have a deadline and would rather hand it over. Both are fine. This post is for the second group. I run rainmanstudio. It is the same work the classroom teaches, done for you: n8n in production, Docker and Postgres underneath it, Cloudflare in front, local models where they earn their place, and enough monitoring that you find out before your users do. The jobs that come up most: An n8n instance that keeps falling over, made stable A homelab or VPS built properly the first time, with backups that have actually been restored Local models wired into something that already exists An audit of a stack you inherited and do not trust How it works. A call first, free, to work out whether I am the right person for it. If I am not, I will say so and point you somewhere better. If I am, you get a fixed scope and a price before anything starts. Engagements start around $2,500. Most of you should build this yourself, and the classroom is there for exactly that. This is for when you would rather not.

The Classroom is live. 34 courses, 330+ written lessons with screenshots - not eight-hour videos you scrub through. FREE TO EVERY MEMBER Four courses, open the moment you join: Docker and Self-Hosting Essentials (9 lessons) Portainer and Dockge (6) Cloudflare, DNS and Security (7) Local LLMs with Ollama (6) Do them in that order and you finish with a working homelab running local AI on it. That is a complete result, not a sample. PREMIUM - $97 a month Renews automatically at this price each month (or year) until you cancel. Cancel any time in Skool settings. The other 30 courses, 300+ lessons. n8n n8n Workflow Foundations (9) n8n Self-Hosting: Zero to Production (9) AI Agents in n8n (7) Activepieces and Windmill (7) AI and code Claude Code for Builders (12) Open WebUI and LiteLLM (6) Qdrant and Weaviate (6) Python for Automation (7) Go for Automation Services (6) Choosing Your Stack: When to Use What (7) Building Apps Without a Framework (6) Infrastructure Postgres, Supabase and NocoDB (8) Single Sign-On with Authentik and Keycloak (7) Grafana, Prometheus and Loki (7) Directus and Baserow (7) MinIO Object Storage (6) PocketBase and Appwrite (6) Vaultwarden and Nextcloud (6) Gitea and Woodpecker CI (6) Git and GitHub for Automation Teams (6) Plausible and Umami Analytics (6) Metabase Dashboards (6) Business Stripe and Payment Automations (6) Email and Newsletter Automation (6) Listmonk Newsletters (6) Strapi and Headless CMS Pipelines (6) Typebot and Chatwoot (6) Cal.com and Documenso (6) Notion, Airtable and Google Workspace (7) Startup Credits and Discounts (105) - every offer dated and checked Also included: every post answered within 24 hours and daily weekday calls. The n8n Self-Hosting Guide (PDF and EPUB) is free to every member in Start Here. $97 is the founding rate. It goes up once there are member results to show, not on a date. Anyone who joins before then keeps $97 for as long as they stay.

Pruning being on does not stop the disk filling. n8n prunes on age OR count, whichever comes first. The defaults keep 10,000 executions or 14 days of them. Executions stuck in waiting never prune at all, and anything you tagged in the UI never prunes either. Then Postgres does not hand the space back when the rows finally go. Deleting them does not move df -h. Run this against your n8n database and paste what comes back: SELECT relname AS table_name, pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(c.oid)) AS total_size FROM pg_class c JOIN pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace WHERE n.nspname = 'public' AND c.relkind = 'r' ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(c.oid) DESC LIMIT 5; I want to see what is actually at the top for people. Curious whether execution_data wins every time or whether something else turns up.