Not from the internet but the lady who sold me my first hive insisted I set it up at the base of my giant elm tree, where the sun only shines from November to March. Needless to say that hive had swarmed/ absconded and been overrun by wax moth within 4 months.
Internet is much better than local know it all. Best local advice comes from your bee club, this lady wasn't a member. She did give me a warranty hive, I picked it up. Her big trees were tiny feathery mesquites and she was in high prairie so her advice actually worked, for her. warranty hive had maybe 5 frames of bees in junk eqpt, I learned feeder design and sunshine on the internet.