Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
The gist
A developer's personal site is now reachable as a Tor hidden service at a .onion address.
The write-up drew Hacker News suggestions on hardening and discovery of hidden services.
How it unfolded
- Sep 28, 2026Hacker News item "Self-Hosting on the Dark Web" (david.alvarezrosa.com) is posted by mooreds, reaching 46 points and 18 comments.
- Sep 28, 2026Commenter basilikum suggests adding the Onion-Location header so Tor Browser can automatically inform visitors about the .onion site; author dalvrosa replies "Good call, I'd missed that. Adding it now, thanks."
- Sep 28, 2026dalvrosa says "Done now" with a link to a homelab repository commit; commenter mzajc suggests running the hidden service on a non-127.0.0.1 bind address in case something else is hosted on that port and the hidden service is forgotten.