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.
websites with .onion top level domain have layers
Ogres have layers.
websites with .ogre top level domain have layers
Also they're satirical.
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.
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.
What's the point? If your server goes down they both do, you're not adding any value by having it on Tor.
It adds extra privacy for people who value such.
Many domains actually host both.