Tor Blog Hosting — Anonymous .onion Blogging

Blogging on the clearnet exposes authors to surveillance, harassment, legal pressure, and censorship. An author's IP address is logged by their hosting provider, their domain registration is public record, and their readers' visits are tracked by analytics scripts, ad networks, and ISPs. A .onion blog eliminates these exposure points entirely.

For journalists reporting on government corruption, whistleblowers documenting corporate malfeasance, activists organizing in authoritarian countries, or anyone whose writing could put them at risk, a Tor-hosted blog provides meaningful protection. Readers access the blog through Tor Browser, and neither the reader nor the author reveals their location or identity.

Even if your writing is not controversial, hosting a blog on Tor is a statement about the importance of free expression and privacy. It normalizes the use of Tor for everyday content and helps combat the stigma that surrounds the network. The more legitimate content exists on Tor, the stronger the network's privacy properties become for everyone.

We support multiple blogging platforms optimized for Tor. Ghost is our recommended choice for serious publishers — it is fast, modern, and produces clean markup that loads quickly over Tor. Our Ghost deployment includes the latest version with a pre-configured .onion URL, SQLite or MySQL backend, and Nginx reverse proxy with caching.

WordPress is fully supported with our Tor-optimized configuration. We pre-install a lightweight theme, essential plugins for caching and security, and configure WordPress for .onion operation. The familiar WordPress editor makes it easy for non-technical writers to publish content without learning new tools.

For the most privacy-conscious bloggers, static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, or 11ty produce blogs that require no server-side processing, no database, and no dynamic code execution. This minimizes the attack surface to virtually zero. Write posts locally, generate static HTML, and push to your .onion hosting. The result is a blog that is fast, secure, and nearly impossible to exploit.

Traditional blog analytics services like Google Analytics track readers with cookies, fingerprinting, and third-party scripts that phone home to surveillance infrastructure. These are incompatible with the privacy commitment of a .onion blog. Instead, we offer privacy-respecting analytics that count page views and referrer sources without tracking individual visitors.

Our built-in analytics system processes Nginx access logs (stripped of IP addresses) to generate aggregate statistics: total page views, popular posts, traffic trends over time, and referring .onion sites. No JavaScript tracking code is needed — analytics are server-side and add zero overhead to page loads. Data is aggregated daily and raw logs are deleted.

For blogs that need no analytics at all, we disable access logging entirely. Your blog serves visitors without recording any trace of their visit. This is the purest form of private publishing — content delivered to readers with no strings attached, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, and no metadata collection.

Blog comments on .onion require careful implementation to protect commenter privacy. We offer several options: anonymous comments with no registration required, pseudonymous accounts with minimal information, or integration with privacy-focused identity systems. Spam protection uses local heuristic analysis rather than CAPTCHAs that call home to Google.

For blogs that want discussion without managing a comment system, we support integration with Tor-accessible forums and Matrix chat rooms. Link your blog posts to discussion threads where readers can engage in longer-form conversation. This separates your publishing platform from your community platform, reducing complexity and attack surface.

RSS and Atom feeds are generated automatically for all blogging platforms. Readers can subscribe to your .onion blog using Tor-configured feed readers, receiving new posts without visiting your site directly. Feed URLs use your .onion address, so feed fetching happens entirely through Tor. This gives your readers a private, pull-based notification system for new content.