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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expatriado@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (3 replies)

websites with .onion top level domain have layers

not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ogres have layers.

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 6 pts · 1y
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Etterra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Also they're satirical.

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y

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.

Azzu@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

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.

shamrockpreacher5@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 1y
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db2@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 1y (8 replies)

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

BombOmOm@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (7 replies)

It adds extra privacy for people who value such.

Many domains actually host both.

linearchaos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

How do you host both?

Azzu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

electro1@infosec.pub · -1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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Azzu@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

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

twistypencil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Such as Facebook