Thanks a lot! Will let you know once I get there :) On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 9:38 AM Stephen Cremin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Shawn > > The trick was to add Cloudflare in front of the Heroku app. The Great > China Firewall was occasionaly blocking AWS-backed sites (like Heroku), but > not Cloudflare IPs. That was my experience. > > Note that AWS does now offer services in Beijing, but it's only open to > China businesses. (Or companies with .cn domains that requires a business > license to register or somesuch. I did get advice from the Japanese AWS > team, but never pursued it with local AWS staff in Beijing.) > > You can test if your site is currently blocked in China in various regions > at: > http://www.blockedinchina.net > > According to that site, www.heroku.com is not blocked, but > www.herokuapp.com is still blocked. So it looks like Cloudflare or > another CDN solution is still the way to go forward. I never tried the SSL > route, but note that https://www.herokuapp.com is also currently blocked. > > The Great China Firewall is much sturdier now than it was two years ago, > and you cannot expect people to reliably use VPNs to bypass it. There are > more and more cloud offerings in China, but I assume they all do their own > policing by only permitting China-registered businesses. > > Let me know how things work out for you! > > Stephen > > > On Feb 1, 2017, 08:05 +0000, hyouuu g <[email protected]>, wrote: > > 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]> 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] > > > > On 8 Aug, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Stephen Cremin <[email protected]> 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]> 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. 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