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Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by amelius on Saturday September 12, 2015 @10:51AM (#10208229)
> [...] set up my MacMini as a server and have all of the above services hosted on the server I own and have full controll of. Do you think that's possible to do?

Unfortunately, that is not (fully) possible. Consumer internet landlines traditionally have an upload speed that is 10x slower than the download speed. Hence you will never get the same performance as a data-center hosted solution.

Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by toufka on Saturday September 12, 2015 @10:58AM (#10208246)
But you don't really need that much bandwidth for all of these services. Dropbox's bandwidth would be the hardest to replicate - but even then, in general, once you get your first backup done, updates shouldn't require that much bandwidth. Music streaming works fine. Photos bottleneck is almost more processing power than bandwidth. Streaming video might be slow, but downloading, then watching usually is good enough for one's own videos shared with friends.

And bandwidth, like HD space, is always increasing.

Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by mamon on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:12AM (#10208292)
There are also some "commercial" symetrical links, meant mainly for small companies. They cost 2-5 times more than a normal, consumer-grade link, but I wouldn't mind paying that extra for the possibility of keeping my data safe.