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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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

websites with .onion top level domain have layers

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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    [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's the point? If your server goes down they both do, you're not adding any value by having it on Tor.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It adds extra privacy for people who value such.

    Many domains actually host both.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That's how I remember it as well. It was a frustrating mess of dead sites or sites that looked like they were created in 1993 and loaded with the speed of a BBS coming through a 1200 baud modern

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    You simply follow the steps for both. But when it says in the steps to set up a webserver, instead of using 2 different webservers, you use 1.

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