Building a Personal Cloud with OxiCloud: Self-Hosted Storage, Calendar, and Contacts

Cloud services have quietly become part of everyday life. Files are stored in online drives, meetings are scheduled through web calendars, and contact lists live somewhere on remote servers. While these services are convenient, they also mean that personal information is continuously stored and processed on infrastructure that users do not control. For many developers and privacy-conscious users, this trade-off raises an important question. Is it possible to keep the same convenience while maintaining control over the data? Self-hosting has long been the answer, but traditional platforms often come with complexity and heavy resource requirements. This is where OxiCloud enters the picture. It is an open source, self hosted cloud platform designed to deliver file storage, calendar synchronization, and contact management in a lightweight and efficient way. What is OxiCloud OxiCloud is a Rust based application that combines three essential services into a single platform. It provides file