The $3/Month Enterprise-Ready Automation Stack: Zero-Trust n8n With One Command (n8n, Cloudflare, UpCloud, Pulumi)

I run one command and get a fully working n8n instance — HTTPS, zero-trust tunnel, PostgreSQL, the works. One more command and it's all gone. Total cost: $3/month. No SSH. No open ports. No clicking around in dashboards. Here's exactly how it works. The Problem With Self-Hosted Automation Every self-hosting tutorial I find tells me to do the same thing: open ports 80 and 443, set up Nginx, wrestle with Let's Encrypt, and pray nobody scans my server before I've hardened it. Then there's the database. Most n8n guides default to SQLite. It works — until two workflows fire at the same time and the whole thing locks up. I don't want to babysit a server. I want to deploy, use it, and tear it down when I'm done. No manual steps. No leftover infrastructure. So I built exactly that. What You Get One pulumi up command creates: A $3/month UpCloud server (1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB storage, Ubuntu 24.04) A Cloudflare Tunnel — zero-trust, outbound-only connection. No open ports. Automatic HTTPS and DDo