I'm not going to be hosting, heck no. But I'm just wondering what all goes into it, what would I need to know?
What all goes into hosting a hidden service?
I'm not going to be hosting, heck no. But I'm just wondering what all goes into it, what would I need to know?
[2 Points] select1on:
[1 Points] shady_varchar:
Knowing how to code a good site with very little other than php. And of course, knowing how to set up and protect an installation of apache and mysql. To protect against sql injection, you really need to read a lot. Not to mention other things.
Hosting, It's not hard with a standard Linux server/TOR/Apache anyone with some basic knowledge can set one up. Apart from that it would take some knowledge of hosting a high volume website would be required (thousands of users an hour).
Creating a Darknet Market that is that is secure would be vastly more difficult and would require some good coding skills. So you would need to be an expert sysadmin/dev/dba/etc.
One of the major issues with TOR is (AFAIK) you have to present just one server as your front end. You can then proxy it back to multiple servers behind that initial server. That is a massive bottleneck so when a site get's massive, all those users are connecting through a single point.
tl:dr - Not hard to setup a basic tor webserver server.