Rooted with Termux: When Your Phone Becomes a Server (and Starts Melting Down)

Rooted with Termux: When Your Phone Becomes a Server (and Starts Melting Down)

When I first rooted my phone and paired it with Termux, I had one goal: turn my Android device into a real, working server. I wasn’t interested in running some fake toy Linux. I wanted a self-contained, fully functional environment where I could host websites, test APIs, and automate my own stack—directly from my phone. And I did it. But I also learned the hard way: phones aren’t built for this kind of stress. Setting It Up: Phone as a LAMP Stack With Termux and root access, I set up a full LAMP stack—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. All on Android. The process was smoother than I expected. I installed packages using pkg and apt , configured Apache to serve from a shared directory, and had MySQL handling test databases. I wrote some PHP scripts, set up an SSH server for remote access, and even installed ngrok to tunnel my local server to the internet. Everything worked. I could access my site from other devices on the LAN. I could SSH into the phone from my laptop. I even ran Python Flask app…