All,

Yes, this has been touched on in other questions, but I can't find something similar enough.

I currently have Google Apps hosting personal email, calendars, contacts, etc. I do like the other google services, but they're outside of Apps. One of the little google irritations that I have to maintain a separate account for Picassa, etc.

So, I'm thinking about moving myself away from Google, but purely for personal, privacy type issues. Do I really like the ads, the email snooping, etc? I've had, and liked MobileMe, back when it was iTools, and then .Mac, but it doesn't offer that much really.

How easily can I replicate it all on a VPS? I don't want to host it myself at home, I'd lose all the wonderful datacenter goodness. THis isn't about personal geekery in my own basement, just about taking a little control back from Google.

So, email is fine running an IMAP server, a nice front-end, etc.

What about Calendars and Contacts?

And, how easily can it be setup to sync to the desktop and iPhone?

Thanks.