Hi Product Hunt, maker here. PhoneRig started with a simple observation: most households own a retired phone that is a genuinely capable arm64 Linux machine with a battery (a built-in UPS), fast storage and a screen, doing nothing in a drawer, while the same household pays a monthly bill to host a small website. So PhoneRig makes the phone the server. It installs a full Ubuntu system inside the app (no root, the phone stays stock), builds you a website or installs WordPress with one tap, and publishes everything over HTTPS through an outbound tunnel, so there is no port forwarding and a changing IP never breaks the site. The newest feature is shared photo albums: send one link and a short passcode, guests view and add photos from any browser with no app and no account, and the photos stay on your phone. A favorite side feature: the travel proxy. When you are abroad, your traffic can exit from your own home connection, so banking logins and home-region services keep working. Sites see your home IP, so it is the opposite of anonymity, and we say so. Honest limits, because a phone is a phone: no Docker (unprivileged userspace), about a 3 GB RAM floor, and it is sized for personal and small-business sites, not for scale. The core is free: server, free subdomain, website builder, albums, SSH. Presets and backups are one-time unlocks. No subscription, because the whole point is that hosting on hardware you own should not have a meter running. I would love your questions, especially the skeptical ones.Hi Product Hunt, maker here. PhoneRig started with a simple observation: most households own a retired phone that is a genuinely capable arm64 Linux machine with a battery (a built-in UPS), fast storage and a screen, doing nothing in a drawer, while the same household pays a monthly bill to host a small website. So PhoneRig makes the phone the server. It installs a full Ubuntu system inside the app (no root, the phone stays stock), builds you a website or installs WordPress with one tap, and publishes everything over HTTPS through an outbound tunnel, so there is no port forwarding and a changing IP never breaks the site. The newest feature is shared photo albums: send one link and a short passcode, guests view and add photos from any browser with no app and no account, and the photos stay on your phone. A favorite side feature: the travel proxy. When you are abroad, your traffic can exit from your own home connection, so banking logins and home-region services keep working. Sites see your home IP, so it is the opposite of anonymity, and we say so. Honest limits, because a phone is a phone: no Docker (unprivileged userspace), about a 3 GB RAM floor, and it is sized for personal and small-business sites, not for scale. The core is free: server, free subdomain, website builder, albums, SSH. Presets and backups are one-time unlocks. No subscription, because the whole point is that hosting on hardware you own should not have a meter running. I would love your questions, especially the skeptical ones.

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Host your site and photo albums on a spare phone

Host your site and photo albums on a spare phone