Why Self-Hosted Matters for AI Work
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Why Self-Hosted Matters for AI Work
If you’re connecting AI to real business data — customer records, internal documents, financial figures — you need to think about where that data goes. Hosted automation platforms route everything through their infrastructure. That’s usually fine for simple use cases. It gets complicated when you’re sending sensitive data through multiple intermediary services before it reaches an AI API.
Self-hosting n8n means the workflow runs on a machine you control. Your data moves from your system to the AI API and back, without a middleman storing a copy.
This is also why n8n pairs well with local models. I run workflows that classify incoming content using a locally-hosted model. The data never leaves the building. That’s not possible with hosted platforms.