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The archive is intentionally small: useful updates over publishing for its own sake.
- Building Web2Onion-dev/beta: Treating Onion Mirrors as Deployments
Why I built Web2Onion-dev/beta, what it does for my static onion mirrors, what I am testing next, and why the source remains private for now.
Read Article - What Operating Tor Across Fifteen Locations Taught Me
Operational lessons from building and maintaining a geographically and technically diverse Tor relay fleet.
Read Article - Why Relay Diversity Matters More Than Raw Node Count
Why providers, autonomous systems, jurisdictions, operating systems, and address families matter more than an impressive relay total.
Read Article - Operating Tor Relays on Linux, BSD, and SunOS
The operational differences that matter when Tor runs across Debian, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and OmniOS.
Read Article - Moving From MyFamily to Happy Families
How Tor's key-based Happy Families design replaces fragile fingerprint lists and how to migrate without losing family integrity.
Read Article - Building Safer Container Health Checks for Tor Relays
What a Tor relay health check can prove, what it cannot prove, and how to keep monitoring from hiding operational failures.
Read Article - The Responsibilities of Running a Tor Exit
What changes when a relay becomes the final hop to the public Internet, from provider consent and exit policy to abuse handling and DNS.
Read Article - Returning the Favor: Building the Tor Relay Stack I Always Wanted
How Tor helped me through Internet restrictions when I was young, and why that experience eventually became tor-guard-relay and the Shinobi Relays network.
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