Hi Stephen - it's been a couple of years and wonder what has been your experience? I'm just about to develop a server to work specifically in China, and I'm physically in the States, and wonder what's the best solution (if Heroku with SSL works it'd be ideal).
Thanks! Shawn On Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 7:00:43 AM UTC-7, Stephen wrote: > > Thanks, William. I'll do a test with SSL in the coming weeks. Didn't know > about the South Korean perspective. > > > On 8 August 2013 21:28, Yeung William <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> A possible solution is SSL endpoint, that seems to improve situation >> quite a bit. The heroku SSL IP pool seems not as badly blocked by china as >> the regular pool (I doubt nowadays if most service hosting via Amazon is >> going to work in china...) Getting blazing fast china website is all about >> money (dedicated bandwidth with china specific suppliers like diyixian >> etc), hosting in china could violate certain countries' security >> requirement (IIRC S. Korea specific said you cant have database hosted in >> china) >> >> >> Yeung William >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> >> >> >> On 8 Aug, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Stephen Cremin <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> The only solution isn't to host your website in China. I'm assuming your >> site hasn't specifically been targeted for blocking. >> >> A couple of ideas: >> >> 1. Has anyone tested whether applications hosted in the EU zone have the >> same problems as those hosted in the US? >> 2. Has using the SSH add-on solved the problem? Can plain HTTP also use >> the IP address provided by the add-on? >> >> I'd be curious about other developers experience of latency in Asia when >> connecting to sites hosted in the US and EU. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> On 11 May 2013 04:12, Adrian <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, May 10, 2013 1:37:01 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> 50% of time website hosted at heroku cannot be loaded. Is there any >>>> solutions for users in China? >>> >>> >>> No easy solution. You need to deploy your service inside China. Heroku >>> is not an option. Even running out of Hong Kong, Tokyo or Singapore is not >>> good enough based on my experience because traffic is still going through >>> the firewall. A temporary solution might be to set up a proxy and this >>> will work until it gets discovered. Sina has a PaaS, Aliyun has a IaaS >>> but these solutions are not as mature as the US counterparts. There is the >>> usual colo strategy also available. If you end up pursuing something >>> would love to stay in touch and share experiences. >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku Community" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
