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.

  • macniel
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    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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    Yeah, hosting it on Tor or i2p will be beneficial for those clients who don’t want to browse the clearnet. I think most all sites should have both

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    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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        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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          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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            The question is can governments figure out where the server location is ? like there r extensions which allow u to c where the website is hosted

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              Providing both a clearnet and a onion domain is not to protect the website’s privacy, but to protect the user’s privacy.