[tor-talk] onion balance needed by default

[bo0od]

I see that from a safe hosting perspective to Tor Hidden services, That
Tor should maintain and ship onion balance by default.

Which is sadly last ever maintained before more than 1 year or so, and
also it lacks the support of onion v3.

This is really useful and needed for cheep/safe hosting of a hidden
service at home or any small server.

as VPS not really always wise to host a hidden service + not much safe
and trusted who accept btc and accept onion hidden service in their
servers at the same time.

so i prefer self hosted with latest Tor upgrade (onion v3) , but sadly
not possible atm with a DOS protection.

so i hope Tor take care of that and consider it as a core software for
now and the future.

Thank You!

[George Kadianakis]

Post by bo0od
I see that from a safe hosting perspective to Tor Hidden services, That
Tor should maintain and ship onion balance by default.
Which is sadly last ever maintained before more than 1 year or so, and
also it lacks the support of onion v3.
This is really useful and needed for cheep/safe hosting of a hidden
service at home or any small server.
as VPS not really always wise to host a hidden service + not much safe
and trusted who accept btc and accept onion hidden service in their
servers at the same time.
so i prefer self hosted with latest Tor upgrade (onion v3) , but sadly
not possible atm with a DOS protection.
so i hope Tor take care of that and consider it as a core software for
now and the future.
Thank You!

Yes, I agree that onionbalance is an essential tool for onion service operators.

We have looked into how to make that possible for v3s but it doesn't
seem to be a trivial project:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26768
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-April/013128.html

For what it's worth, we've been applying for onion-service related
funding as an organization so that we have more resources to support
third-party tools like onionbalance.

Other than that, we've been ultra busy bugfixing v3s and in general
supporting them, that does not allow us much time into improving
onionbalance given the current state of our resources.

Hope this was useful! :)

[bo0od]

glad to hear that :)

Post by George Kadianakis

Post by bo0od
I see that from a safe hosting perspective to Tor Hidden services, That
Tor should maintain and ship onion balance by default.
Which is sadly last ever maintained before more than 1 year or so, and
also it lacks the support of onion v3.
This is really useful and needed for cheep/safe hosting of a hidden
service at home or any small server.
as VPS not really always wise to host a hidden service + not much safe
and trusted who accept btc and accept onion hidden service in their
servers at the same time.
so i prefer self hosted with latest Tor upgrade (onion v3) , but sadly
not possible atm with a DOS protection.
so i hope Tor take care of that and consider it as a core software for
now and the future.
Thank You!

Yes, I agree that onionbalance is an essential tool for onion service operators.
We have looked into how to make that possible for v3s but it doesn't
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26768
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-April/013128.html
For what it's worth, we've been applying for onion-service related
funding as an organization so that we have more resources to support
third-party tools like onionbalance.
Other than that, we've been ultra busy bugfixing v3s and in general
supporting them, that does not allow us much time into improving
onionbalance given the current state of our resources.
Hope this was useful! :)