[tor-talk] Multiple servers with SAME hidden service

adrelanos adrelanos at riseup.net
Fri Oct 19 22:57:51 UTC 2012


Daniel Dennis:
> After trying to think of privacy flaws in hidden service (which i still
> don't like) I began to wonder
> 
> What happens if you have MULTIPLE servers with the same hidden service?
> As in you have a small VPS which is getting busy and you'd like to share
> the load with another VPS. Assuming they know about eachother and works
> correctly when the two servers are under the same domain name. What
> happens if two servers try to advertise the same service? Will it not
> break anything? If might 4/5ths of users only access one server?
> 
> Not that I think anyone needs multiple servers for one service.
> 

There was a discussion about hidden service scalability with useful
outcome a while ago.

Added the links here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO#Serversoftware


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