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I load-tested self-hosted n8n on a $0 VM for 5 hours. The worst latency came from apt.
I run a benchmark harness that measures how often automation platforms silently drop webhook events. The self-hosted part of it lives on a Google Cloud e2-micro: 1 GB RAM, 0.25 vCPU baseline, 2 GB swap, free tier, $0/month. It handles about 108 events a day, roughly 4.5 an hour, and has been up since July.
Someone pointed out that the burst test I had published (10 events at once) says nothing about sustained load, which is true and is the better question. So I held one event every 5 seconds ...
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