Hi, I have a xiaomi mi a3 that I don’t use and I’m wondering if it is possible to use it for selfhosting. (piped, nextcloud…)
google for the things you want to host and append “termux” to it, e.g.:
- nextcloud on termux
- piped on termux
Thanks to your comment I gave termux another try and finally figured out what I was doing wrong (pgk updates never working). DO NOT install termux from the Play Store, use FDROID. If you use the play store version you have an old and outdated version with old and broken package repos.
Should work, tho I doubt it’s much more performant than a pi, so your ideas might be too heavy for it.
Termux has nginx, postgres, python and plenty of stuff compiled to ARM so I bet you can. You would have to be wary of non standard ports unless you have root access and make sure android does not kill or puts to sleep termux by adding exceptions to the app.
I remember running a few low traffic Mastodon bots in a S3 Mini years ago and it was decent.
But if it does not getting any updates, it is a bit risky… Find a custom which gets security updates and then do whatever they say in other comments.
