This was the article that convinced me to try: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.27months.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;its-always-sunny-in-iceland-or-how-i-nsa-proofed-my-email&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.27months.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;its-always-sunny-in-iceland-...</a><p>I read both that one and the one posted here like an hour before this one got posted on HN and they have convinced me to give running my own server a try.<p>In the meantime, I have just downloaded a backup of all of my data from Twitter and Facebook (Facebook&#x27;s archive was like 15x as big as the Twitter&#x27;s archive even though I&#x27;m using Twitter way more) that I am going to save on my server, I have switched to POP instead of IMAP on my current email service and I am testing out ownCloud in a Docker container.