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With that level of traffic, they could run their entire frontend from a smartphone...



Why did you have to type that. Now in my free time there's a 50/50 chance I am going to waste minutes or even hours looking into the viability of running a postgres/sinatra/nginx app on a phone.

Something about that appeals to me in a huge way. Showing people my "server room", etc etc.


Attach the phone to a small weather balloon, and you can have a real "cloud hosted" setup.


There's a bunch of httpd apps on the Play Store, many complete with database engines and all that.


Plot twist: Run it from a flip phone.


Phones are expensive. Raspberry Pi.




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