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That's a terrible idea and you should never run any kind of service from your phone.
Maybe not permanently. But for straight up tinkering to see if/how possible it is, it'd be a fun experience.
You can use old phones to run file servers...
I dunno. If you could run some distro like mobian on some phone with an 8 core processor, could be a decent choice for a little instance.
I think you'd want to use a phone with USB C then use a powered USB-C dock with wired ethernet, but get to square 0 and I bet you'd have something that could really sit there just serving for a long time. I'd be a little concerned with IO access since the internal MMC would be constantly hammered, but there are USB-C external drive enclosures you could easily use that for storage and not have to worry about mutilating your phone's mmc.
Part of me wants to try sometime just to prove it can be done.