[circuit]

> The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites.

"For as little as $0.25, you can set up websites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the masters of only pay for what you use hosting since 2002." [1]

Are you telling me people who can afford a smartphone cannot afford some simple static hosting?

[1] https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

[_xivi]

Except, you don't own or control any of these sites or services. You're merely a tenant without any power. You're open for many threats outside your control:

1. Service shutdown

2. Price jacked up

3. Your account/instance terminated

4. Data abused

And many more. It's almost guaranteed you'll basically be hold hostage at one point.

So, if you're arguing against people having the ability to host on devices they own, you'd need a better argument, one that specifically show how that would be destructive and harmful so that they shouldn't have this freedom.

[troupe]

Running a webserver on your phone incurs all the same issues plus it might be out of range or your phone might be off. So having a webserver on your phone is actually worse.

[oneplane]

> You're merely a tenant without any power.

By that logic, that's what you are on your phone as well, unless you collected the silicon material, diffused and soldered and programmed it yourself.

Even if you assume 'a physical black box, but at least you hold it in your own hands', that is barely making that position stronger since you're still reliant upon networking which requires both a second party and rights to use it, neither of which you control.

Essentially, you will never, ever be some silly idea of a 'self made server owning person' because without mutual agreements and trusts, you get nothing. Not even spare electrons to flip the bits in the CPU registers.

The best we can do is make a balance between our risk appetite and how we want to spend our time. Turns out random phones that will turn into e-waste faster than you can sneeze is what people accept, and thus that is what the suppliers supply.

[vorticalbox]

You can run a static site on github.com for free.

[stcroixx]

Surely without any content restrictions or consequences to the account.

[nfRfqX5n]

looks like it can't handle a few clicks from hn

[opportune]

Micropayments aren’t more of a thing already for a reason. There is friction and overhead with signing up for a 3P subscription service even if the actual dollar cost is negligible.

[smallerfish]

The reason is high credit card fees. If payment gateways allowed micropayments they'd be more popular. (Square, for example, charges 31-33c on anything under $1.)

[dt3ft]

Down for me as well. I guess you get what you pay for ;)