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.
hn9zmdcaou•1h 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.
dalvrosa•13m ago
Agreed yeah. Mine has been up with no issues so far for ~half a year.
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•50m 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•47m 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.
dalvrosa•44m ago
That'd be an exit relay, not doing that atm, just in case
fishgoesblub•43m 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.
Imagine if normal people could install a single normal application and just run a website from a folder. CLI makes it more difficult than hosting a normal website. Typing commands you don't understand doesn't seem all that of a great idea.
dalvrosa•1h ago