I’ve got a Exci­tio B3 (per­sonal server) that I use for dif­fer­ent com­puter tasks.
It serves my own­Cloud, an instance of Ampache, a Tor bridge, a video/music/photos streamer, a anony­mous drop­box (FTP) and thinkUp – a web app that backs up your social media inter­ac­tions. I also use it as my router, and as a backup for my photo mas­ters. So far, it’s been a very pleas­ant expe­ri­ence. I am look­ing to use it even more! I would like to be able to serve my friends with small and useful web apps.

With great power, comes great respon­si­bil­ity
Because of this, I won’t try to help with their e-mail, or any other ser­vice that requires uptime. After all, the server is run from my living room and I’m always trying out new stuff on it. So the ser­vices need to be quick and dirty, the jack and use kind of apps.

Why I’m doing this
I have this vision/ideal of direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion – with­out middle hands.
That means no gov­ern­ment, no cor­po­ra­tions in between.
And after all: I have both the CPU and band­width to do this.
Besides the B3, I also have an account with Web­Fac­tion that sup­ports both node.js and a few other cool tech­nolo­gies. Might just go ahead and try

Today:

• cryp­to­cat
• some kind of pastebin
• Tor bridge

Tom­mor­row:

• sta​tus.net
• ether­pad lite
• dias­pora

Things that can improve the expe­ri­ence
It would be awe­some if we (who have servers) could help each other with redun­dancy, when my ser­vice goes offline, then yours could take over.

During my search I found a great list of apps that you can try on your server: http://​wiki.​debian.​org/​F​r​e​e​d​o​m​B​o​x​/​L​e​a​v​i​n​g​T​h​e​Cloud

What apps would you serve to your friends?