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It would be really great if somebody wrapped up all the open source material available and made an image available to AWS and other VPS users. Use the image, have email, an XMPP server, etc -- out of the box. On your own dime.

I'd pay for it.

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Here you go:

http://www.ispconfig.org/support/

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-13.04-nginx-...

Me too. But it would need to be open source, super easy to install, and vetted by a 3rd party with experience in security related issues.

The Citadel groupware suite[1] provides provides KVM and VMWare images[2] that could easily be imported into EC2. Found it as part of my own research into reducing my reliance on Gmail and other hosted services, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

[1] http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/doku.php?id=start

[2] http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:appliance

I installed them, and the service seems really reliable. And is also really easy to install. The main drawback is the horrible interface. But you can use your favorite email cliente with smtp.

You should have a look at this: http://cozy.io/

there are at least a couple companies doing variations on this, if you look around on https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace you can browse through some.

TurnKey Linux: https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/tour/cloud/ | https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/?id=a05a35...

BitNami: http://bitnami.com/stacks | https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/?id=dbe648...

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