First Win In My AI Automation Journey(technically)
Yeah, I haven't built any major workflow yet, but this is much much of a win to me as I begin this journey. I first signed up for the 14 day trial and it was okay, then i realized if the trial expires, i can't automate at all, which sucks. And I don't have the finances to keep up paying monthly, since I plan to take this seriously up to 5 months plus. Then i heard of Self Hosting in the Classroom Section of this community, and i heard it is literally free, unlimited executions; but it's very technical to set up and encounter webhooks not working. So I sucked it up; I must learn! I began the quest to have it work. I searched numerous Youtube's, Perpelexity. Then i found out about using Cloudflare Zero Trust for tunneling so that n8n can connect to the public network. All i needed was a domain(You can buy .online, .xyz, .store etc from Namecheap for less than $2/yr; it works so far you not using it for production and just for learning like me), Cloudflare Zero Trust plan(Free plan) and that's all. I can't lie, It was really technical setting up the docker and the routing. Hours of troubleshooting, long Perplexity threads to the point it told me to suck it up and use the n8n local host(http://localhost:5678/) π. I didn't give up!! Finally routed it, but I encountered an error where I couldn't even have access to the domain i routed the Cloudflare tunnel to. My guts just told me to use Firefox and voila!!, It works!!! (A win for Firefox i guess..lol) Now I can finally dive deeper and comfortably in learning AI Automation!! I'd appreciate any more tips or advice moving forward using this approach as this is my first time. Thanks!