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So you want your app/website to work in China

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Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by cranej »

continuations wrote: post #120
yixiang wrote: post #91

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 Alipay (sort of China's PayPal) up for a long time. * ICP Licenses are easy to get (at least for Chinese) and typically take less a month. I've done it for my company's websites and my clients' websites. * ICP licenses are required only if you…

> Hosting in China is ridiculously expensive and many Chinese go out of their way to host elsewhere If I host in Europe or US would the speed of traffic going into China be very slow? If I get a 1Gbps server in EU most likely I can serve 1Gbps to USA. Will I be able to serve 1Gbps to China from that EU server? > For 9$ a month you get 1 cpu, 1G ram and 1MBit bandwidth That is insanely expensive. How can startups in C…

CN2 stands for ”ChinaNet Next Carrying Network“

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by ganlub »

ashton314 wrote: post #2

I traveled to China for about a month and a half a few years ago. Everything was excruciatingly slow. Except for Hacker News. Probably more about the payload size than anything else. :) How many companies work hard to make their services readily available in China? Any notable exceptions?

Last I checked it didn't load without a VPN.

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by laurent123456 »

yixiang wrote: post #91

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 Alipay (sort of China's PayPal) up for a long time. * ICP Licenses are easy to get (at least for Chinese) and typically take less a month. I've done it for my company's websites and my clients' websites. * ICP licenses are required only if you…

Do GitHub releases (downloadable files hosted on GitHub) work well in China in general?

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by laurent123456 »

matthew-wegner wrote: post #62
morkfromork wrote: post #35

I want the opposite. I want to block China and Russia and a few other countries that constantly try to hack my site.

You can block whole countries with the free CloudFlare tier. (Or give them CAPTCHA style challenges)

Wouldn't they just use a VPN to go around the block?

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by abc-xyz »

dang wrote: post #109
spectramax wrote: post #47

I don't want to live in a world where the next superpower blocks websites as they suit them, suppress freedom of speech and journalism, exploit prisoners, religious segregation camps, employing social dystopian systems and is led by unimpeachable, unchallenged leader who has elected himself with a 1000-0 vote as perpetual president of the country. It is sad to see that the rest of the world has to bend down to serve…

Please don't post political/national rants to HN. They are all the same, making them tedious, and they lead to flamewars, which produce even-less-interesting scorched earth. None of this serves intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I really don't understand this line of thinking.. if someone (whether it's a country, company, person) engage in evil behavior then of course we should do everything possible to dissuade others from supporting them until they change. It's possible for this site to serve intellectual curiosity without directly supporting an evil regime that put Muslims in concentration camps, engage in medical genocide (organ harvesting), and all sorts of human rights violations.

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by nyuszika7h »

klaudius wrote: post #13
pcr0 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're loading them asynchronously, no.

On this page[1] it says that even links (e.g. Google Play links) might cause slow page load time. [1] https://crossborder.digital/how-to-test-your-page-loading-speed-in-china/

It sounds like the person writing this article was forced to mention a "unique feature" for each website and they basically just wrote the same thing worded differently for the first three.

Re: So you want your app/website to work in China

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Post by teknologist »

PakG1 wrote: post #115
hw wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't China ban VPN or at least started to issue fines to people who were caught using VPNs? Unless they backtracked on that..

Yes, that parent comment must be old information. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn... As well, I think the Chinese government has demonstrated multiple times during "sensitive times" in recent years that they can make commercial VPN services nonfunctional at the s…

Most, if not all of them, use fixed IP addresses which would be trivial to block regardless of what hip new crypto schemes they're running. Any customer can get the full server list too - worth it to a censor for $5.

The only real threat is something like Tor which is very aggressively and actively probed/blocked in China.

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