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.    If you end up pursuing something
> would love to stay in touch and share experiences.
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