Thanks for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. All your points make sense and it's those things that have to be resolved one by one to make any

Thanks for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. All your points make sense and it's those things that have to be resolved one by one to make anything like this not just a viable product but an actual sustainable business. I do keep coming back to this idea mostly because unlike a lot of people here, I don't want to tinker anymore, I don't want to hand build something from scratch, those days are long gone. I'm happy and willing to pay for something that works and maybe even a subscription for a period of time (think mobile phone contract). Ultimately as you say privacy is the clear selling point. So much of what's in the cloud is now being exploited or hacked. Obviously the cloud is here to stay and we'll continue to rely on it for a ton of high compute, high bandwidth and high storage needs, but there's so much of what we do on a day to day basis that just doesn't require it e.g let's just say I need to talk to my family, leave notes between us, share sensitive documents, etc. All of that can very much be local in my house. All the things that we do in our physical houses we deem private, the digital should be the same. But we've shifted from the personal computer to public cloud services. There was big benefits but equally there will be huge benefits to going private once more. I can't say this problem will be solved anytime soon. Someone has to really want to solve the problem for themselves first. I'm hacking on a little toy that might manage DNS, email, web serving, file storage, etc as one binary but I'm not sure it will go anywhere, it's just an experiment.