Martin, DreamHost in California currently offers S3-compatible object storage (currently $0.04 / GB) and is in the process of rolling out a computing platform similar to Heroku. They??re extremely friendly to non-profits and other do-gooders so I bet they??d be interested in hearing from you.
Good Luck! James On Mar 5, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Martin Johnson <greatf...@greatfire.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are running unblockable mirrors of some websites that are blocked in > China. They are unblockable because: > ?6?1 They cannot be blocked by DNS poisoning or IP blocking without > also bringing down all other content on the same host (s3.amazonaws.com). > ?6?1 They cannot be blocked based on keywords because they are accessed > over HTTPS. > An example mirror site: > https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html > The approach works very well but it does mean that we rely on Amazon. Do you > know any alternative hosting services which offer the same advantages as S3? > Namely: > ?6?1 Files can be accessed on a general host (not through > account-specific subdomains). > ?6?1 HTTPS is supported. > Google does offer such a service (Cloud Storage) but it's already blocked in > China. Microsoft Azure and Rackspace apparently only support account-specific > subdomains. > > Suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > Martin > > ???????????? / Martin Johnson > Founder of GreatFire.org and FreeWeibo.com | PGP key > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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