Intro and Render

0:00 hey in this video I'm going to show you how to set up naden self-hosting in just 3 minutes and then I'm going to show you five other ways to do so as well this works if you are an nadn beginner an naden Pro or anywhere in between I'm going to walk you through the process and even sign up and pay for the services so that you guys can get this unadulterated view of how all this works as possible that sounds good to you let's get into it the first and simplest way to self-host is using render for those of you that are unfamiliar they call themselves the fastest path to production for a reason now I'm not affiliated with them but I'll show you how you can get up and running with render in just a couple of minutes this is easily the simplest way to go ahead and do so so first things first just create an account over here now I already have an account so I'm just going to put in a fake one here fake email address and the fake password we're going to click create account

0:45 they're going to ask you to verify your email next now since I've already gone through and done all of the signup I can then go and then sign in so I'm going to sign in with my account after you are done verifying your email you'll be taken to a screen that looks like this it'll say deploy a service static site postgress database or explore all service types now unlike a lot of the other videos here I'm actually signed up to the service I'm actually going to be paying when I need to but I want to let you guys know that like you know the these videos tend to be invalidated pretty quickly because all of the platforms that we are signing up for self-hosting on they all tend to have different uis and uxs and they change the way that their dashboards look and stuff so instead of paying attention to the very specific buttons I'm clicking and stuff like that just try to understand um what what I'm doing more generally so what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to find an

1:28 area in the page that says deploy a service and then go down to where it says existing image what you're going to need to do is you're just going to paste this in verbatim so NN has a deployment method called Docker Docker is just a very simple and easy way to grab like an image of the nadn install off of the internet so if you just Google you know n8n Docker like I'm doing here you'll get a page that looks something like this on the docker Hub and if you just scroll down you'll find a URL that looks something like this docker.io n/ in this is just what you copy then you go back to render and just paste it in where it says image URL up here then you click connect I'm going to leave everything else as blank and I'm going to click on free for hobby projects in reality what you're probably going to want to do is you're going to want to launch a starter a standard or Pro Plan depending on your usage if you are doing thousands of requests a minute Pro is probably uh sufficient for you if you're just getting up and running and maybe have like two or three clients or two or three um you know systems that you're you're maintaining that send workflows every few minutes starter is sufficient for you if you do free just note that they'll automatically spin down the

2:36 service this can be kind of a pain in the butt but I'll just leave it at that once you're done it's going to go through it's actually going to spin up the docker image and you're going to set up your server so let me cut in a second by the way it was on this website that I first found what NN actually means it was written by the Creator himself and he says that it means node mation and it is pronounced as n8n apparently the reason why was he just didn't really like typing a ton of characters so he said n8n node mation good enough okay and then after a couple minutes you're going to get a message that looks something like this with editor being accessible in this Local Host all you need to do is go up here to the link give it a click and then you'll have the ability to set up your owner account so that's what I'm going to do here and once I'm done going to click next this will then send a verification

3:24 email using my server actually which is interesting do some fun little onboarding heard about yall through Google then we actually have the ability um and this may not necessarily be the case when you guys are watching but as of the time this recording we have the ability to get a bunch of paid features for free with a license key so I've already done this on a bunch of other ones I'm going to skip it but yeah now naden is here we could start any workflow we want from scratch this is running entirely in our own server you'll see that because it's a free server it's going to be a little bit slower than usual um but all hot Keys everything you could possibly want works and because you're using a Docker image it's going to be up toate so this is by far the simplest and easiest way to get up and running with this I should note that um if you want to like this isn't the only way to set up NAD end on render and we've also glossed over a fair number of like the configuration

4:11 options that you have if you want to check out some of those configuration options feel free to check um the nend docker page there are variety that allow you to like switch the database that you're using by modifying environment variables and changing basically a bunch of things related to encrypting and so on and so forth if you also look at the nadn community environment variables and just pump that into Google you'll find a bunch of different settings that people