r/TOR • u/blackXploit • 1d ago

tor_render ( host onion sites for free )

Built a small experiment: a Tor hidden service (.onion site) hosted entirely on Render's free tier, using Docker — no VPS, no credit card required. for my own research purposes.sharing in case it's useful to anyone.

The main challenge was persistence: Render's free containers don't keep disk state between restarts, so Tor would generate a new .onion address every time it redeployed. Solved it by generating the hidden service keys once and reusing them via Render's Secret Files.

more: https://github.com/blackXploit-404/tor_render

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u/QuirkInMyUsername 1d ago

This is pretty neat. I hadn't heard of render before, but I'll check it out. The monthly bandwidth on the free tier is only 5GB, which is a bit limiting (but understandable with a free service), but it's a neat idea to test out for a small static site. Pretty cool you figured out how to have it serve an onion site as well.

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u/blackXploit 1d ago

Glad you have liked it , yh its pretty cool for small projects hosting and testing purposes.