Privacy

Welcome to the Invisible Internet! — Setting up I2P on a VPS

November 17, 2024

A major hurdle for the wider adoption of the I2P protocol is the same as with many other purely P2P protocols: you need to reach a certain peer connectivity level before anything becomes usable. For example, this Mental Outlaw video about I2P shows that it can take many hours of waiting before most eepsites become accessible. This is drastically different from e.g. Tor, which is basically plug-and-play. Setting up I2P on a remote VPS and port forwarding that connection with SSH provides a robust solution to this problem, as the client being online 24/7 guarantees excellent connectivity.

Spinning up a Dockerized Onion Mirror

April 07, 2024

I decided to spin up an onion mirror of this website just for the fun of it. Funnily enough hosting an onion service is actually easier than hosting a clearweb site. When searching for information about Dockerizing onion services, I noticed that the guides found with quick web searches vary significantly in quality, especially from a security standpoint. This prompted me to compile my own notes and thoughts on the topic into this compact post.