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.
I wouldn’t expect anything like this proposal to be mandatory. I’d want it as something I could turn on if I felt I needed it.
If you give people this ability, most of the ones who use it are going to put themselves at risk.
Maybe you feel that’s their own problem. Sometimes you need to protect people from themselves. The phone vendors sure as hell don’t want to start seeing news stories of their devices getting hacked all the time.
And how do you feel about your site visitors not being able to hit your page when your local network is overloaded?
Having my phone not be able to do something I want it to do is my problem.
That’s why you have it turned off by default.
Compared to how it is right now, when I can’t run a site on my phone at all? It would be a significant improvement.
I meant, it’s arguable that if people use this feature and expose themselves, that’s their own fault. I’m not sure what you thought I meant.
It’s off by default, but still there for uneducated and unskilled people to turn on and leave themselves exposed.
Vs just paying a few bucks for linode that’s got multiple 9s of uptime? It doesn’t seem worth it.