I tried to package and run Seafile, but it was kind of complex, and under-documented. Also, the first time I got it to run on my server, it ran my Linux server into the ground (IIRC it kept the CPU so busy that I couldn't do anything through SSH -- had to reboot the server to get back in). I also got the impression the open source community isn't that active -- i.e., it's mostly maintained by the commercial backers (some Chinese company, I think).
On the other hand, Syncthing is a clear demonstration where deploying Go code is dead easy, although I really don't like Go's packaging all that much.
The one thing I still want from Syncthing is a way to have client-side encryption, e.g. have remote storage with zero knowledge of the actual data I'm storing.
What specific trouble do you have with it? I have it setup on a server with a semi reasonable deployment/update mechanism managed through fabric and ansible.
I understand the setup was crappy (you have to leverage their script), but I believe Debian is looking at packaging it so maybe in the future that flow will be better.
