This blog now lives on the dark web as a Tor hidden service

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

This blog now lives on the dark web as a Tor hidden service

The author walks through self-hosting a static site as a Tor onion service: installing Tor, pointing a hidden service at a local nginx port, and building a second copy with the .onion address as its base URL so links don't leak back to clearnet. No certificate authority, no DNS, no exposed IP — the address is derived from a public key, and Tor encrypts the connection end to end.

There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself.

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2026-09-27