Thanks Brandon for sharing all that. Very insightful. On Nov 30, 12:00 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > Sorry I forgot about this thread. > > http://www.hktechnology.com/ > > we use them they work well, and yes Hong Kong is a good place to be, you can > get filtered but usually only if you piss people off. If you really are > going to do business in china (more than $250k a year) Hire someone, $25k a > year and get an office ($6k a year) Give the person a title like "Enterprise > Liaison" have them as a phone contact, and email contact. They don't need to > do anything except sit there. > > We hired a beautiful 20 something who also spoke enough English to get > through phone calls. This also helps with filling out forms that the > Chinese Government likes to send, many of which ask things like "Does your > web site express views of the X political party" "Discuss the features of > your web site that allow mass communication between users". (and yes > beautiful was a factor in hiring her, if you are going to pay someone to > fill out 3 forms a year and answer the phone you might as well have them > look good enough to put their picture on your website) > > They send about 3 of these a year. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of jon > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:29 PM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Reverse Proxy setup to serve users in China > > What I'm about to suggest may be completely silly as I have zero experience > in this sort of stuff, but what about setting up a proxy in Hong Kong? > > According to Wikipedia > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Repu... > _China > ) the Great Firewall of China doesn't apply in Hong Kong, and I assume > connections from China to Hong Kong aren't interfered with? > > On Nov 29, 2:15 pm, Albert <albertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Got it! Thanks! > > > Albert > > > On Nov 29, 7:01 am, Will <vocalster....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > No, I don't use a geographic DNS, just simply redirect all requests > > > by a micro EC2 instance. > > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Albert <albertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "Wow!" to your stories, Brandon. I never realized it was that tough... > > > > > Will, did you use a geographic DNS? Or did you route all your > > > > requests through your EC2? > > > > > In my case, a little more accessibility to my site from China is > > > > good enough. :) > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > On Nov 25, 4:31 pm, Andrin von Rechenberg <andri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Brandon for the win. Great story :) > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Will <vocalster....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > My hats off to you, Brandon. > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > Will > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Brandon Wirtz > > > > > > <drak...@digerat.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > >> There is radio jamming actually. I was part of the Radio Free > > > > > >> Asia > > > > group > > > > > >> and one of the solutions we built before the internet opened > > > > > >> up a bit > > > > in > > > > > >> China was to park boats in international waters and broadcast > > > > > >> in to > > > > China. > > > > > >> So China would set up frequency jammers.**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> Later we built a solution for embedding text and audio in to > > > > > >> the > > > > images > > > > > >> contained on sites that were hosted in china and carried > > > > > >> government sanctioned reporting of events but which if you > > > > > >> had our software > > > > player > > > > > >> would allow you to read the “real” accounts of those > > > > > >> events.**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> Ah, Those were the days.**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> *From:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto: > > > > > >> google-appengine@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry > > > > > >> Hunter > > > > > >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 24, 2011 12:48 PM > > > > > > >> *To:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > > > > >> *Subject:* Re: [google-appengine] Reverse Proxy setup to > > > > > >> serve users > > > > in > > > > > >> China**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> **** > > > > > > >> A server in China to bypass the GFW? Good luck, > > > > > >> hahaha....**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> Give the server a Satellite Modem, then it can go up and over > > > > > >> the > > > > great > > > > > >> wall... **** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> Or is there radio jamming?**** > > > > > > >> ** ** > > > > > > >> ;)**** > > > > > > >> -- > > > > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > > > > >> Google > > > > Groups > > > > > >> "Google App Engine" group. > > > > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > > > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.**** > > > > > > >> -- > > > > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > > > > >> Google > > > > Groups > > > > > >> "Google App Engine" group. > > > > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > > > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > > > > > Google > > > > Groups > > > > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > > > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > > > . > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
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