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Abhishek Jaiswal is the founder and engineer behind Ownkube, a cloud for personal software. He builds the platform and writes here about cloud cost, migrations, and running production infrastructure in your own AWS account without a DevOps team.
Posts by Abhishek Jaiswal
| 6 min
How to run scheduled and cron jobs on Ownkube
How-To
| 7 min
Railway alternative in 2026: when to switch
Engineering
| 6 min
Preview environments for every pull request
How-To
| 7 min
How to keep your cloud bill from surprising you
How-To
| 8 min
Prepaid cloud wallet vs usage-based billing
Product
| 7 min
Northflank alternative for solo and small teams
Engineering
| 6 min
Move the same app into your own AWS account
How-To
| 7 min
Metered or flat box: which pricing fits each app
Product
| 6 min
Migrate from Railway to your own AWS account
How-To
| 6 min
How to manage secrets and environment variables
How-To
| 5 min
Does Railway credit roll over or expire?
Engineering
| 6 min
How to deploy a Ruby on Rails app on Ownkube
How-To
| 6 min
How to deploy a Next.js app on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to self-host n8n on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to deploy a Go app on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to self-host Metabase on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to deploy Ghost on Ownkube
How-To
| 6 min
How to deploy a FastAPI app on Ownkube
How-To
| 7 min
How to deploy any Docker image on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to deploy an Express / Node.js API on Ownkube
How-To
| 9 min
Railway vs Render vs Northflank in 2026
Engineering
| 6 min
How to deploy a Django app on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to self-host Cal.com on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
How to self-host Directus on Ownkube
How-To
| 5 min
Deploy a web app on Ownkube in under a minute
How-To
| 5 min
Connect your AI coding agent to Ownkube with MCP
How-To
| 5 min
How to autoscale a service on CPU and memory
How-To
| 6 min
How to add a background worker and job queue
How-To
| 6 min
How to set up automatic HTTPS on a custom domain
How-To
| 5 min
How to add a managed Postgres database to your app
How-To
| 5 min
How to add a Valkey (Redis) cache to your app
How-To
| 7 min
Kubernetes cost optimization for startups
Engineering
| 7 min
Fly.io alternative in 2026: moving to your own AWS
Engineering
| 7 min
AWS spot instances in production: a 2026 playbook
Engineering
| 7 min
Internal developer platform: when you need one
Engineering
| 8 min
Self-hosted PaaS in 2026: Coolify, Dokku, CapRover
Engineering
| 7 min
Heroku in 2026: the real cost of staying
Engineering
| 7 min
Vercel alternatives for backend services (2026)
Engineering
| 8 min
AWS Activate credits in 2026: get them, keep them
Engineering
| 6 min
AWS NAT gateway cost: why it's high and the fix
Engineering
| 7 min
DevOps engineer salary in 2026: cost and options
Engineering
| 7 min
Ingress-NGINX EOL: migrating to Gateway API
Engineering
| 9 min
Deploy on AWS without hiring a DevOps engineer
How-To
| 10 min
Render vs your own AWS account: when to switch
Engineering
| 9 min
EKS vs k3s on AWS: cost and when to choose
Engineering
| 10 min
A Heroku alternative in your own AWS account
Engineering
| 3 min
Connect your AWS account to Ownkube in two minutes
How-To
| 6 min
Kubernetes events disappear after an hour
Engineering