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.

  • @expatriado
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    223 months ago

    websites with .onion top level domain have layers

  • macniel
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    83 months 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.

  • @db2
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    -93 months ago

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

    • BombOmOm
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      123 months ago

      It adds extra privacy for people who value such.

      Many domains actually host both.

      • @linearchaos
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        43 months ago

        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.

        • @marx2k
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          33 months 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

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          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.

          • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ
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            3 months ago

            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

            • @[email protected]
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              73 months ago

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