Thanks for that, great post.

I’m completely hooked on the convenience and power of these services — in particular the Google ecosystem personally, as well as Facebook for social media (Twitter I am not so concerned about since it allows you to use an imaginary username). On my laptops and for work I use Linux, but on my phone I use Android with the addition of Google’s proprietary software. Every so often I get the fear — the fear about all of this intimate personal data that’s held about me and my family and I look at my options.

I have good technical skills but the main issue is time. I think I could get a comparable service together out of secure and/or open source components — but it will be quite a large project to put it all together. And with a demanding day job and two children that I want to spend time with, my private cloud remains on my to-do list.

I’d be willing to pay for a preconfigured software suite that I can install on my own severs and that doesn’t “phone home”. I suppose there could possibly be a business opportunity there?