# Ownkube
> Ownkube is a cloud for personal software: deploy web apps, background workers, scheduled jobs, and Postgres databases in seconds. Push a repo or a container and get a live URL with managed Postgres, automatic TLS, logs, metrics, horizontal autoscaling, and one-click rollbacks. No cloud account, no config file, and no card required to start. Ownkube runs on a prepaid wallet from $5 a month, metered per minute at about $0.00041 per vCPU-minute and $0.0001 per GiB-minute (about a third under the equivalent Railway bill). If you ever want your own data boundary or your own bill, you can run the same app inside your own AWS account with the same workflow and dashboard; AWS is supported today with more clouds on the way.

## Key pages
- [Homepage](https://ownkube.io/): Product overview, features, how it works
- [Homepage (markdown)](https://ownkube.io/index.md): Machine-readable summary of the homepage
- [Pricing](https://ownkube.io/pricing): Prepaid wallet from $5/month, metered per minute. Running in your own AWS is also available (Starter free, Production $5/vCPU and $1/GiB RAM per month)
- [Pricing (markdown)](https://ownkube.io/pricing.md): Machine-readable pricing details
- [CLI (okctl)](https://ownkube.io/cli): The Ownkube command-line interface. Deploy, tail logs, and pull connection details from your terminal. Scriptable; every read command speaks JSON
- [Blog](https://ownkube.io/blog): Engineering, how-to, and product articles
- [Blog (markdown)](https://ownkube.io/blog.md): Agent-friendly blog index with links to each post's markdown
- [Security](https://ownkube.io/security): Security practices
- [Changelog](https://ownkube.io/changelog): Product changes

## Documentation
- [Docs home](https://ownkube.io/docs): Full product documentation
- [Docs index for agents](https://ownkube.io/docs/llms.txt): Agent-friendly index of every docs page
- [Quickstart](https://ownkube.io/docs/quickstart): Deploy your first app in minutes
- [How it works](https://ownkube.io/docs/how-it-works): How builds, deploys, and the platform fit together
- [CLI (okctl)](https://ownkube.io/docs/cli): Install the CLI, log in, and deploy from your terminal
- [Run in your own AWS](https://ownkube.io/docs/guides/connect-aws): Optionally link your own AWS account
- [Deploy your first app](https://ownkube.io/docs/guides/deploy-first-app): End-to-end first deploy
- [Environments](https://ownkube.io/docs/features/environments): Isolated environments for your apps and databases
- [Databases](https://ownkube.io/docs/features/databases): One-click Postgres and connection details
- [Autoscaling](https://ownkube.io/docs/features/autoscaling): Horizontal autoscaling on CPU and memory triggers
- [Custom domains](https://ownkube.io/docs/guides/custom-domain): Point your domain at a deployment

## Key facts
- Positioning: deploy apps, databases, and workers via Ownkube in seconds, with the option to run the same app in your own AWS account
- What you can deploy: web apps, background workers, scheduled cron jobs, and managed Postgres. If it runs in a Docker container, it runs on Ownkube. Any language, any framework.
- Getting started: no cloud account and no credit card required. Prepaid wallet: Personal $5/month and Team $20/month load that amount as credit and per-minute usage draws it down. Metered rates are about $0.00041 per vCPU-minute and $0.0001 per GiB-minute (about a third under the equivalent Railway bill). Flat-price reserved Spark and Core boxes are available. 100 GB egress included, then about $0.09/GB.
- Platform: automatic TLS, live URLs, managed Postgres and Valkey cache, horizontal autoscaling on CPU and memory, logs, metrics, and one-click zero-downtime rollbacks, all handled for you.
- Cloudflare-backed domain: every project gets a ready-to-share URL on a Cloudflare subdomain with free DDoS, bot, and scrape protection. Point your own domain at a deployment with a CNAME. No DNS setup required.
- Run in your own cloud (optional): run the same app inside your own AWS account with the same workflow and dashboard. Starter is free forever on one AWS instance; Production is $5 per vCPU per month plus $1 per GiB RAM per month, and you pay AWS directly at wholesale. AWS is supported today, with more clouds on the way. Zero lock-in: disconnect anytime and infrastructure keeps running on vanilla cloud resources.
- CLI (okctl): drives the whole platform from your terminal. Install via Homebrew (brew install ownkube/tap/okctl), pre-built binaries, or go install github.com/ownkube/okctl@latest. Deploy, tail logs, and pull connection details out of the box. Every read command speaks JSON for scripting.
- Coding agents: install the CLI skill with "npx skills add ownkube/ownkube-cli" so Claude, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, or Cline can drive Ownkube for you.

## Sign up / sign in
- Signup: https://app.ownkube.io/login
- Login: https://app.ownkube.io/login

## Blog posts
- [Kubernetes cost optimization for startups: 7 patterns that cut bills in half](https://ownkube.io/blog/kubernetes-cost-optimization-startups): The 2026 cost-optimization playbook for startups running Kubernetes on AWS or GCP. Right-sizing, spot, idle sleep, namespace quotas, image pulls, NAT routing, and the one structural change that compounds them all. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/kubernetes-cost-optimization-startups.md)
- [Fly.io alternative in 2026: when teams move to their own AWS account](https://ownkube.io/blog/fly-io-alternative-own-aws): Why teams leave Fly.io in 2026 (region coverage, compliance, AWS credits, bill predictability) and what the move to your own AWS account actually looks like for a small team. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/fly-io-alternative-own-aws.md)
- [AWS spot instances in production: the 2026 playbook for safe 60% to 80% savings](https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-spot-instances-production-guide): How to safely run production workloads on AWS spot instances in 2026. Interruption handling, fallback patterns, realistic savings benchmarks, and the workloads that should never go on spot. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-spot-instances-production-guide.md)
- [What is an internal developer platform (IDP), and when does a small team actually need one?](https://ownkube.io/blog/internal-developer-platform-2026): A plain-English 2026 definition of internal developer platforms, the four signals that say your team needs one, and the build-vs-buy framework most growing startups end up using. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/internal-developer-platform-2026.md)
- [Self-hosted PaaS in 2026: Coolify vs Dokku vs CapRover vs Ownkube](https://ownkube.io/blog/self-hosted-paas-comparison-2026): A practical comparison of self-hosted PaaS options for small teams who want Heroku-style developer experience without the markup. Setup, scale ceiling, ops burden, and when each one stops fitting. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/self-hosted-paas-comparison-2026.md)
- [Heroku in 2026: the real cost of staying, and the move smart teams are making](https://ownkube.io/blog/heroku-2026-pricing-alternatives): Heroku's 2026 pricing changes, the per-dyno math at typical small-team scale, and a side-by-side of what the same workload runs at in your own AWS account. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/heroku-2026-pricing-alternatives.md)
- [Vercel alternatives for backend services in 2026: where Vercel stops fitting and what to use instead](https://ownkube.io/blog/vercel-alternatives-backend-services-2026): Vercel is great for frontend. For backend services (workers, cron, long-running jobs, GPU, private databases) the fit gets thin fast. A 2026 comparison of where Vercel stops working and the practical alternatives. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/vercel-alternatives-backend-services-2026.md)
- [AWS Activate credits in 2026: how to get them, where they leak, and how to make every dollar land](https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-activate-credits-guide-2026): A practical guide to AWS Activate for funded startups in 2026. How to qualify, how to apply, the tiers, the expiry traps, and why where you spend the credits matters more than how many you get. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-activate-credits-guide-2026.md)
- [Your AWS NAT gateway is costing you $1,800+ a month. Here's why and how to fix it.](https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-nat-gateway-cost-fix): NAT gateway charges are the number one surprise line item on small-startup AWS bills. A 2026 breakdown of why they're so high, the three architectural patterns that cut them, and the one most teams miss. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/aws-nat-gateway-cost-fix.md)
- [DevOps engineer salary in 2026: what hiring one really costs (and what to do instead)](https://ownkube.io/blog/devops-engineer-salary-cost-2026): A clear breakdown of senior DevOps salaries in 2026, the loaded cost to your runway, the lead time to hire, and the smaller-team alternative that's beating the hire for most seed and Series A startups. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/devops-engineer-salary-cost-2026.md)
- [Ingress-NGINX EOL in 2026: a practical migration guide to Gateway API](https://ownkube.io/blog/ingress-nginx-eol-gateway-api-migration): Ingress-NGINX reached end of life on March 26, 2026. Here's how to migrate to Gateway API with ingress2gateway 1.0, pick a controller (Traefik, Envoy Gateway, kgateway), and avoid the upload bug that bites WSGI apps. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/ingress-nginx-eol-gateway-api-migration.md)
- [How to deploy on AWS without hiring a DevOps engineer](https://ownkube.io/blog/deploy-on-aws-without-devops-engineer): You need to ship on AWS. You don't have a platform team. Here's the stack that actually works, and the expensive mistakes to skip on the way there. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/deploy-on-aws-without-devops-engineer.md)
- [Render vs running in your own AWS account: cost, control, and when to switch](https://ownkube.io/blog/render-vs-aws-own-account): Render is great early on. But for teams that need real infrastructure control, AWS ownership, and predictable costs, running in your own account is the better long-term path. Here's how to decide. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/render-vs-aws-own-account.md)
- [EKS vs k3s on AWS for startups: cost, complexity, and when to choose each](https://ownkube.io/blog/eks-vs-k3s-on-aws-for-startups): A direct comparison of EKS and k3s on AWS for small teams who have to ship. Real bills, real failure modes, and the line where k3s stops being enough. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/eks-vs-k3s-on-aws-for-startups.md)
- [A Heroku alternative that runs in your own AWS account](https://ownkube.io/blog/heroku-alternative-in-your-own-aws-account): Keep the Heroku workflow (git push, managed Postgres, a Cloudflare-backed domain) in an AWS account you own. Here's how teams do it and what changes when they do. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/heroku-alternative-in-your-own-aws-account.md)
- [Connect your AWS account to Ownkube in about two minutes](https://ownkube.io/blog/connect-your-aws-account): Connecting AWS to Ownkube is zero-input: no account ID to paste, no region to pick. Here is the whole flow, plus where to find your AWS account ID if you want to confirm the right one. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/connect-your-aws-account.md)
- [Kubernetes events disappear after an hour. Here's how to fix that.](https://ownkube.io/blog/kubernetes-event-monitoring-complete-guide): Kubernetes events tell you exactly what's going wrong in your cluster, but they vanish after 60 minutes. This guide walks through exporting them to Elasticsearch, Slack, Loki, and 30+ other destinations. (markdown: https://ownkube.io/blog/kubernetes-event-monitoring-complete-guide.md)

## Machine-readable resources
- Sitemap: https://ownkube.io/sitemap-index.xml
- Robots: https://ownkube.io/robots.txt (includes Content-Signal directives)