Back in 2009, anynone with a Nokia could have a personal website running on their own phone. Sadly this amazing piece of tech was never widely adopted. Today’s phone are far more powerful than those Nokias both in performance and battery backup and still we don’t see anyone running a server on their phone. Why?
I think this was never implemented on phones because there’s no incentive for large corporations to work on something like this.
What are you talking about? GitHub pages is just one example of a web page host that’s free for everyone, super fast and reliable.
Even if you need to host something that has a backend, there are free options with significantly fewer downsides than hosting on your phone.
Cloud servers may be a bad solution for things like pinhole, but your phone would be dead in four hours if you were forcing it to stay awake to respond to every DNS request on your network.
If you’re talking about using your phone as a stationary server that you leave plugged in, isn’t that just an extremely overpriced raspberry pi with no free IO ports?
It’s an interesting idea, but it’s just so much worse than any other option that I can’t imagine anyone seriously wanting to do it.