I just had a crazy idea has anyone tried hosting a website off

Your carrier most likely uses something similar to NAT to prevent you from opening ports that are accessible from the Internet.
If you are connected to a Wifi it should work, as long as you forward the necessary ports.

>crazy
>host a website off of a rndroid phone
YA GONA GET LOCKED UP

For what purpose? What's the advantage over say a RPi?

>>56391559
not him but in that specific instance the phone would likely be more powerful if it's something new

but i also don't see the point in doing it off a phone when the rpi has the native ability for extra peripherals

>>56391175
there like a ton of apps for that since at least 5 years already

crazy !!! !

>>56391175
It's a fucking handheld unix box, so of course. You can install debian on the thing. Dunno how the perf would be over an RPi though, if there's an abstraction layer or some shit it might not be great. not to mention the fact that there aren't really any physical ports, so it would be tricky to wire it up. Using cell service would be idiotic. You don't carry web servers with you, you need a more static IP address in most cases.

>>56391175
I haven't tried, but it would be trivial to do as long as you can install apache/nginx or something. Also it would have to be put on a wifi, always plugged in and kept in a single location, because 4G while moving around on battery is too unreliable. Even assuming your ISP doesn't NAT you.

Which they probably would.

>>56391883
You don't even need to install something other than android. I can do it on my rooted nexus with ease

there's apps available that set up a full lemp stack for you