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yixiang

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About yixiang

A freelancer from China starting his own consultancy.

Email: yixiangblog at Google's email

Recent public activity

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    Comment #19977528

    I suggest remove "GFW" from the name. It's not funny if your site was blocked for the name when you promise to make clients' websites work in China. I also wonder if there's really…

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    Comment #19945135

    > I spent the next six weeks building. By that point, my customers were loving the product – even my largest customer that started out highly skeptical of the paradigm. Everyone wh…

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    Comment #19483000

    I honestly don't notice a big difference, plus my self-hosted VPN still works as fast. So I guess a reliable VPN is the answer.

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    Comment #19461371

    CN2 is basically a fast lane to China that you can buy from one of China's biggest internet providers (China Telecom). It has two flavors, CN2GT[0] and CN2GIA[1], CN2GIA is said to…

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    Comment #19461153

    As far as I know, you can't do that, since your ICP license is tied to a host provider (like Aliyun), if you host your site somewhere else, you risk having your license revoked.

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    Comment #19461132

    > If I host in Europe or US would the speed of traffic going into China be very slow? I'm not sure, but I guess it should be nowhere near 1Gbps. You'll have to test it to find out.…

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    Comment #19459648

    I'm Chinese. It's not that bad. * I've been hosting my Chinese blog in US vps since 2009 and it works fine. * I have Gitea hosted in US vps and it works fine too. * GoDaddy has Ali…

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    Comment #18478959

    It could be, if you do it right. As a former freelancer and now consultancy owner, I suggest you to: 1. Avoid cheap freelancers. 2. Always start with small tasks to test a freelanc…

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    Comment #18037088

    I was in a similar situation in a kind of reversed way several years ago. I was good at coding, but had no interest in it, since I had started learning it around 8 years before. Th…

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    Comment #17840817

    I've heard many companies say they can't hire a single developer, and then pass on good candidates. It's easier to blame the market than admit "we are terrible at recruiting."

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    Comment #17840778

    After reading your comment about more context. I honestly feel you should seriously consider learning how to manage people/projects. Or, how to bring in help without bringing in pr…

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    Comment #17840032

    You have three options. 1. Learn management. If you want people to do things to your satisfaction, you have to be explicit about your expectations, communicate it, monitor progress…

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    Comment #17824077

    I started with no connections too. I've been a freelancer since 2015 and I recently started my own consulting firm. Here's how I got clients. 1. I contacted someone on a PHP forum …

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    Comment #17218724

    I'm a Chinese, and I'm a gamer, I can help. I'm mainly a developer so I can take this gig if it doesn't take too much time. Or I can ask around for you. You can send me an email (s…

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    Comment #17213155

    I used to do English to Chinese translation jobs on Upwork, the pay was reasonable (translators are very under-paid in China) so there were some good translators. Nowadays Upwork a…

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    Comment #17083231

    As a freelancer from China who is starting my own agency, I've developed many outsourced projects for my clients, or my clients' clients. Here's my advice. 0. Sometimes it takes MO…

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    Comment #15550161

    Sorry to AskewEgret for "borrowing" reply space. Location: Chengdu, China (UTC + 8) Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Vanilla JavaScript,…