Although this is a nice write up about a possible setup for self hosted alternatives for popular cloud services, I don&#x27;t like it. It falls short to compare the different possible services and the possibilities you can have with them. OwnCloud is nice, but why should I pick on OwnCloud and not SeaFile. Ampache is cool, but why not Subsonic?<p>I would like to read the reasoning behind the individual choices OR the reasoning behind the overall choice of moving a way from big corp products.<p>It feels to much like a &quot;look at my setup&quot; posts, which are nice to read but it could be much better.<p>But, my input now:<p>OwnCloud is wonderful for file syncing but where it really shines is the contact and calendar sync. It is the easiest to install and best accessable web interface Cal&#x2F;CardDAV software out there. Radicale is a wonderfull little python Cal&#x2F;CardDAV server but it hasn&#x27;t got a web interface which is a feature I do miss when I don&#x27;t have it. OwnCloud is really pulling through on the whole &quot;google replacement&quot;, work has been started on a mail client which looks very nice and works decently (for now).<p>Ampache is cool but I found the installation to be too fiddly and easy to break. It could be my incompetence with that product but I prefer subsonic. A java product which just runs and it runs well. The webinterface desperately needs a good UIoverall but it works and it doesn&#x27;t get in the way.<p>RocketChat I don&#x27;t know and I should look into but I do feel that XMPP should be the chat replacement for all. The fedearation, the gazillion clients and the maturity of the software is just so so nice that I am sad that it isn&#x27;t more popular. I feel it&#x27;s a huge shame google and facebook stopped fedarating their xmpp services.