"Practical onion hacking: finding the real address of Tor clients"

[coderman]

On 10/26/06, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> ...
> AFAIK you don't have to run a Tor server to run a hidden service.

this is correct.  i experience much better availability/performance
with hidden services on a server.  though it was a while ago that i
compared, and this would be worth revisiting in detail.

best regards,