Self-hosting n8n gives you full control over your automation data — critical for clients in regulated industries. Here is how to harden a production instance.
Docker + Traefik
Running n8n behind Traefik gives you automatic HTTPS via Let’s Encrypt and easy horizontal scaling as workflow volume grows.
Locking It Down
Enable basic auth at the reverse-proxy layer in addition to n8n’s own user management, and put webhook endpoints behind a dedicated subdomain so you can rate-limit them independently.
