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n8n Says "Execution Limit Reached"? What Counts, What It Costs, and How to Fix It (2026)

Your workflows stopped and n8n Cloud says the execution limit is reached. Here's what uses up executions, what each plan includes in US dollars, the settings that cut your count, and when self-hosting the free Community edition makes sense.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 10 min

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Software

Your Self-Hosted App Needs HTTPS: Caddy vs nginx With Certbot

You have an app running on a port and a domain pointing at the box. Two tools can put a padlock in front of it. Here is the minimal setup for each, from their own docs, who renews the certificate, the licences, and when nginx is still the better pick.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 9 min

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Business Software

Odoo pricing 2026: Community vs Standard vs Custom, and what self-hosting really costs

One app is free forever. All apps cost €19.90 to €44.90 a user a month. Here is the three-year bill at 5, 20 and 50 users, with the self-hosted route priced honestly.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min

A server rack — Proxmox VE runs virtualization clusters

Software

your Proxmox 8.4 box stops getting support in August. here's the 9.2 upgrade

Proxmox VE 8.4 stops getting support in August. 9.2 finally adds the automatic load balancing VMware refugees kept asking for — and I think the upgrade is worth doing for that alone, deadline or not.

Aliteq Team · Jul 20 · 8 min

Hard disk drives — NAS storage prices rose sharply in 2026

Hardware

building a NAS got brutally expensive this year — and nothing improves until 2027

NAS drive prices climbed roughly 46% between September and January, driven by the same AI datacenter demand squeezing memory everywhere. here's the honest buy-now-or-wait call.

Aliteq Team · Jul 20 · 6 min

A photo gallery — Immich is a self-hosted photo library

Software

Immich 3.0 is finally a Google Photos replacement you can hand to your family

the first major version bump in the project's history brings a visual automation builder, real mobile photo editing, and live video transcoding. it also drops a database backend that will break some upgrades.

Aliteq Team · Jul 20 · 6 min