sthubbar Posted September 19, 2010 at 05:04 AM Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 at 05:04 AM Not only is there a Great Firewall of China, there is also the less popular Great DNS of China. I have some domains registered at smallbusiness.yahoo.com. I thought they were working from within China, without VPN, though it appears I forget that I had hardcoded US based DNS servers, and using China DNS servers they don't seem reachable. Roddy, I don't see an ICP number on your site, so it doesn't appear you have registered chinese-forums.com with the Chinese authorities? Any idea why chinese-forums.com is reachable, but YourGuideToChina.com and BlueRiverCompany.com are not? BlueRiverCompany.com was created over 1 month ago, so I doubt it is due to DNS propogation. If I were to use GSIhosting.com, like chinese-forums.com, would that make a difference? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 19, 2010 at 05:26 AM Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 at 05:26 AM Are you hosted on Yahoo? They historically have problems, going back to geocities (ie free hosting) days. Also, avoid hosts which allow adult or gambling sites - China goes after those aggressively and you'll be collateral damage sooner or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sthubbar Posted September 19, 2010 at 11:56 AM Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 at 11:56 AM Roddy, Yes, it is on Yahoo. Darned. I like their Site Builder program. Who can recommend a hosting provider that provides: 1) Extremely simple website setup/design/templates (concrete5 at Bluehost is harder than I prefer) 2) Accessible from China 3) 100% Support Chinese characters on the simple website setup program/CMS 4) 24/7 Support phone or chat 5) Affordable, around $10/mo 6) Reliable 7) Ability to offer professional services once I get around to hiring professional designers. Yahoo provides me with all these, except it appears #2! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashu Posted September 19, 2010 at 06:13 PM Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 at 06:13 PM I'm asking myself the same question with google hosted sites (google sites, appengine, etc). Does it have the same problems as yahoo? I'm not talking of blogspot/blog sites. @sthubbar Maybe you could try weebly.com but I don't know whether you can access it from China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 20, 2010 at 12:30 AM Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 at 12:30 AM Avoid free hosting and hosts which accept adult and gambling sites. If possible run the site on its own IP address. That's really all you can do, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted September 20, 2010 at 12:48 AM Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 at 12:48 AM Google appengine is not blocked at the moment. But there are a lot of people running proxy servers off of it, it could be in the future, if the authorities think it's a big enough threat to the GFW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashu Posted September 21, 2010 at 08:33 PM Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 at 08:33 PM Well I have a site that is hosted on appengine, but is seems that it is blocked in China. Can anyone in China tell me which of these websites are reachable: www.b-speak.com and b-speak.appspot.com What are the solutions to handle this? Buying .cn domain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted September 21, 2010 at 08:50 PM Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 at 08:50 PM I had hardcoded US based DNS servers How does one do that? I thought that DNS lookup was only on the client side, how does a website enforce using a certain DNS server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted September 21, 2010 at 09:47 PM Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 at 09:47 PM B-speak.appspot.com is not blocked, but b-speak.com appears to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 22, 2010 at 03:21 AM Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 at 03:21 AM He's referring to specifying DNS servers on his own computer, rather than having his site tell people what DNS servers to use (which would be a neat trick, bit like having people call you up to ask for your area code). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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