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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by kodablah on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:06PM (#18505120)
Onion (née hidden) services are easily hosted from any computer, even behind a NAT/ISP due to how it publishes its descriptor and relies on reachable relays for rendezvous. It's easy with the Tor executable and a torrc file, there are plenty of guides out there.

Even though you're new to all this, for others wanting to do this programmatically, there is Stem for Python and I've written one for Go [0]. It's such an easy self-hosting NAT traversal technique, I'm surprised it's not used more often in situations not requiring great bandwidth/latency (e.g. p2p chat).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/bine

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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by dredmorbius on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:05AM (#18508811)
Inexpertly hosting onion services on your own premises, particularly if you're doing so out of a real fear of getting found out, is not recommended.

Talk to the Dread Pirate Roberts next time he's in the neighbourhood.

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