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One does not simply launch a website on a server inside of China. First, I had to wait about four months on a waitlist with AWS-China to get setup with an AWS-C
by bobjordan 10y ago
One does not simply launch a website on a server inside of China. First, I had to wait about four months on a waitlist with AWS-China to get setup with an AWS-China account for our China business. Now, I've had the AWS-China account for about 3 months and still awaiting the ICP license to be issued, so I can actually open port 80 on a VM. No less, the time it took to get fully functioning companies in place to even be able to have a business account. It is a crazy struggle over here, but I guess if it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
Edit: forgot to mention that the solution also depends on my Chinese wife having her name on the ICP linense documents. It wouldn't even get done without that.
- BlackjackCF 10y agoCurious as to why you chose to go with AWS-China vs Ali's service?
- envy2 10y agoThis feels more like "AWS problems" than "China problems." I was up and running on Aliyun in ~10 minutes, with a personal ICP license issued to me (a US citizen) in about 10 working days.
- envy2 10y agoThis feels more like "AWS problems" than "China problems." I was up and running on Aliyun in ~10 minutes, with a personal ICP license issued to me (a US citizen) in about 10 working days.
- rsync 10y ago"still awaiting the ICP license to be issued, so I can actually open port 80 on a VM." It is my understanding that things are much, much easier if you are not "publishing". That is, if you don't have a website or open port 80 (for instance) you can quickly and easily co-locate devices inside China - without any kind of license. Although we have not yet deployed rsync.net in mainland china (we have a location in Hong Kong) all of our contacts and partners were happy to rent us rackspace for non-publishing infrastructure - no licenses needed.