Host Website from Home Anonymously
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Abstract
Hosting a website anonymously is possible by the infrastructure provided by the Onion Router which provides
anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to track web server which host the website. It hides not only
the server, but also traffic by using inbuilt feature of encrypting data stream. Onion Routing’s anonymous
connections are bidirectional and near real-time, and can be used anywhere even from home. Socket connections
used here to establish or terminate connection. It uses series of proxies to host website and other services like e
mail etc. Website hosted with Onion Router can only be visit by using Tor Hidden Services. In order to access or
visit these websites on Tor, the client should be available on Tor network via Tor Browser. Tor includes its own
DNS resolver which will dispatch queries over the mix network. Each website hosted on Tor network has unique
Base 16 encoding with .onion extension. Access to onion routing network can be configured through various
ways as per the needs, policies, and facilities of the connecting router. In this paper we discuss the anonymous
web services used to host website from home using Tor Network. The method proposed here provides reliable,
secure and cost effective alternative for hosting website. The discussion also includes the comparison of the
proposed facility with the standard web hosting features.
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