10mo ago

Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site?

Assuming I’ve got a website hosted on GitHub via Cloudflare with a custom domain. How different would it be to host the same site with a .onion address?

EDIT: I’ve had a few drinks so hopefully this isn’t too bad or at least makes sense.

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websites with .onion top level domain have layers
- Ogres have layers.
  
  websites with .ogre top level domain have layers
- Also they're satirical.
It's just a name that gets resolved into an IP. Tor though does a bit more with it. But that's the gist behind it.
https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/setup/
I.e. you either need your own server or a provider that supports Tor. Don't think GitHub supports it.
What's the point? If your server goes down they both do, you're not adding any value by having it on Tor.
- It adds extra privacy for people who value such.
  Many domains actually host both.
  
  I screwed around on tor the other day for the first time in a long time, most onion sites I could find were down. The only thing that worked fine was Wikipedia LibGen and a few other places out of hundreds deadlinks.
  
  How do you host both?
  
  Such as Facebook

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