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.
Are you talking about running a public DNS resolver?
That’s a very different topic that wasn’t part of the original post as far as I can tell.
There have always been (and there always will be) countless solutions for hosting a website for free. Even ignoring the security implications, mobile networks are not designed to do what you want to do. Full stop. If you can’t find a cloud provider in 2023 that will host a free website that will meet your needs, you aren’t looking hard enough.
Mobile providers spend billions in CAPEX every single year to keep up with ever-increasing demand (spectrum, base stations, radios, antennas, etc.) and even then they can barely keep up in some areas.
Every device attached to a given cell shares the resources of that cell. And uplink bandwidth is specifically scarce. Don’t be a bad neighbor.