Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

(david.alvarezrosa.com)

30 points | by mooreds 4 hours ago

6 comments

  • basilikum 37 minutes ago
    You probably want to add the Onion-Location header to the clearnet site so Tor Browser can automatically inform the visitor about it: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...
  • dherls 47 minutes ago
    What is the benefit of building the same website twice with different hostnames instead of using relative links to content on the same domain?
    • dalvrosa 44 minutes ago
      Fair point. Very small things like RSS, canonical link or og:url or microformats use absolute URL

      To make sure once in the .onion, you never leave the .onion

  • comrade1234 40 minutes ago
    Besides accessing your page are random people able to use your server as an exit node? Am I thinking the right thing... I met someone in Switzerland that was hosting anonymous exit nodes to some anonymous network and he said that it was a pain having to explain what was happening to the police.
    • fishgoesblub 37 minutes ago
      Running a Tor exit node is a manual process. Running a hidden service like a website, or chat server doesn't involve anything like that.
    • dalvrosa 37 minutes ago
      That'd be an exit relay, not doing that atm, just in case
    • basilikum 36 minutes ago
      No
  • dalvrosa 1 hour ago
    Thanks for sharing! Happy to get feedback :)
  • hn9zmdcaou 1 hour ago
    Nice thing is you skip port forwarding entirely, which matters a lot if your ISP has you behind CGNAT. Curious how people handle uptime though, since a hidden service going down isn't something you notice until someone tells you.
  • hndhyc0bdt 1 hour ago
    Ran a small onion site for a couple years and the nice part is you never touch a public IP or a cert. Downside is onion v3 addresses are impossible to share verbally and the latency makes anything chatty feel broken. Static pages only, honestly.