My first mistake was buying a cheap server from CloudAtCost without knowing beforehand if I’d have any particular use for it. As is usual for nerds like me, I immediately had to find something to put on there.

Owncloud

My first port of call was to try out OwnCloud. I’d heard rumblings about it on the interwebs previously and figured – despite having a premium Dropbox subscription – that I should have a go at setting it up. Fortunately, getting it working in Ubuntu is pretty much as simple as:

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sudo apt-get install owncloud

At this point I can pretty much consider that plan a failure. Open Source guys, listen up: if your software isn’t at least as nice to use as the proprietary stuff, why do you even bother? You shouldn’t just settle for mediocrity and hope that because you’re open source you’ll get a decent userbase of digital hipsters.