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Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

miller60 writes "A Japanese company called Freebit has released ServersMan, an app that turns the iPhone into a web server. It debuted in Japan in February, has now been launched in the US, and is being touted as a 'Personal Data Center.' Freebit also has a video with additional information on server-enabling your iPhone. 'Once the app is installed, PCs on the internet can access the iPhone to upload or download files through a browser or they can use the webDAV protocol. If the PC and the iPhone are on the same network, the PC can connect directly. If they are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection.'"

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  1. Hah, you wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Banned from the app store in 3, 2, 1...

    1. Re:Hah, you wish by MBGMorden · · Score: 4, Insightful

      if it does contain some limits, like they say unlimited* phone calls and sms (* max 3000 mins per month).

      That just seems so deceptive it's terrible that it's allowed to go on. Basically: "Unlimited* internet and phone service! (*Not really, we lied.)"

      I can understand that they don't REALLY want to sell unlimited, but in that case it should instead be listed as:

      3000 Minutes per month and 10,000 SMS messages per month - $45

      Or whatever, rather than stating it as unlimited and then "defining" unlimited as something clearly NOT unlimited. It's like telling your buddy that you just "hung out" with his girlfriend last weekend and nothing more, but then trying to hide somewhere you're redefining "hung out" to really mean "banged like bunnies". In all other walks of life that's just called a lie.

      --
      "People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
  2. How long until... by orkybash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...apple/AT&T decides that running web servers from iPhones is taking up too much of the network's bandwidth and they flip the kill switch on this app though? I guess as long as people are just using it for personal file storage...

    1. Re:How long until... by rm999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, I don't see why they are referring to this as a "server", it's bad PR. No ISP technically lets you run a server, so why would a provider let you run one through their cell towers?

      Instead, they should call it a personal data syncing app or something.

  3. Re:apache? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well...

    Once the app is installed, PCs on the internet can access the iPhone to upload or download files through a browser or they can use the webDAV protocol. If the PC and the iPhone are on the same network, the PC can connect directly. If they are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection

    From the summary... That is something apache does not do out of the box.

  4. iPhone App Saturation... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have friends who been encouraging me to get into iPhone apps to make a million dollars. That would've make sense if I was into developing for the iPhone before there was an apps store. Now, a gazillion apps later, the market is getting saturated with useless apps. I got better things to do than put a web server on an iPhone.