Yes.
Don't.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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why?
Hardware isn’t designed for it, from CPU ramping to flash read/write leveling, to pretty much everything else.
You can do it, but if you can afford to spend $150 on a minipc, you’ll get something significantly better for server purposes than a $200 phone.
As the other person said, you can but you shouldn't.
why not?
Huge battery drain, Android will kill your service after it thinks it should (unless you're rooted or give the app a special permission which will be revoked at random times) and it's slower.
You generally want stability out of hosting a service and Android has a hostile environment for apps to run in by design to save battery.
Thanks, bud.
Yep, start by installing Termux
like using your phone as a server?
Yeah i guess