I searched the classroom lessons for what self-hosters keep asking about on the n8n forum, and kept only what no course covers yet. Four things came out on top. Premium and VIP members pick which one I build next. 1. Lock down your n8n The courses secure your server and your Cloudflare edge. None of them secure n8n itself. This covers n8n's built-in security audit, which nodes to allow, protecting public webhooks, hiding what executions store, and what to do the day a security advisory lands. 2. Workflows that don't fail silently The worst failure is the one that says "success" and does nothing. This covers heartbeats, checking the result and not just the status, one alert per incident instead of hundreds, never processing the same thing twice, stopping a slow schedule from overlapping itself, and a safe replay queue. 3. n8n as your AI's toolbox n8n can be an MCP server, so Claude or any MCP client can call your workflows as tools. This covers exposing a workflow, putting it behind auth and your proxy, connecting a client, and making the agent ask you before it does anything it can't undo. 4. Your homelab security watch Use n8n to watch everything else you run: certificates and domains about to expire, new CVEs for the images in your compose files, breach alerts for your addresses, readable DMARC reports, and a check on suspicious links. The poll is open for 7 days. Everyone can vote, but only Premium and VIP votes are counted: the course vote is a Premium benefit. Free members, vote anyway: it tells me what you'd upgrade for. Premium members get the winner first. Picked one? Tell me in the comments what you'd use it for. If it's a tie, the option with more Premium and VIP members saying they'd use it wins, one per member. Still tied, I pick. The runner-up goes on the next vote. Pick one.

If you run your own stack — n8n, Docker, a homelab, local models — and you would rather own it than rent it, you are in the right place. HOW IT IS SET UP Joining is free. Free members get four complete courses, the community feed, and a live call every Monday morning. Premium ($97 a month) opens the other 30 courses — 34 in total, 330+ written lessons — plus an answer to every post within 24 hours and a live call every weekday morning. VIP adds direct access to me. Renews automatically at this price each month (or year) until you cancel. Cancel any time in Skool settings. THE PREMIUM GUARANTEE Do the work and your stack isn't in production within 30 days? I refund your first month. "In production" means all six of these are done: → n8n on your own hardware or VPS, on Postgres, on a pinned version → External task runners working, and a Code node that runs → HTTPS on a real domain, behind a reverse proxy → A local model answering through Ollama → Nightly backups, and one test restore actually done → Your encryption key stored somewhere that is not the server The conditions: post your setup in Help within your first 7 days, come to at least 2 live calls, work through the list and post where you get stuck, and claim by day 30. If you did all that and you are still not running, that is on me. Annual members: claim within 30 days of purchase and get the unused whole months back. Everything in the Classroom was built and run before it was written. The compose files, the workflow exports and the version numbers are the ones that actually worked. THREE THINGS TO DO NOW First — work through the four free courses, in this order: Docker and Self-Hosting Essentials, Portainer and Dockge, Cloudflare, DNS and Security, then Local LLMs with Ollama. Finish them and you have a homelab running local AI. Second — post in Help and tell me what you are running and what broke most recently. Copy this and fill it in: What you run (tool and version): What you are building right now: