My self-hosted version is installed with Coolify on a free Oracle virtual machine and runs really well. It does take some getting into but the fact you can kind of use Python and can fully use JS makes a difference for getting out of roadblocks when the nodes that exist are not quite what you want.
A lot of what I am doing with it is plumbing together APIs like that old Yahoo! tool if you remember it
RE: Example n8n workflow without AI