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Not directly applicable your case, but I will try my best to aid you by giving you my experience. I live in Singapore and I get very fast connections to some o

Not directly applicable your case, but I will try my best to aid you by giving you my experience. I live in Singapore and I get very fast connections to some of the sites in China, such as taobao.com and zhihu.com, which I assued employed some additional mechanism to serve overseas users. In contrast, websites related baidu generally loads slower (>500ms), which I assume is because they have no need to serve overseas users. That's from a user's perspective. I also have a VPS on DigitalOcean in Singapore region. It is accessible in China and relatively fast when I tried to ssh into it within China (<100ms). My suggestion would be to get a consultant firm or tech firm that specializes in serving overseas users to get some insights on how to setup your infrastructure. Surely there are ways to it, Valve managed to stream Dota 2 Shanghai Major to millions of people outside China. But you need to start by really understanding how the Internet in China operates, not relying on prior knowledge of setting things up in other countries.

ttflee 10y ago
In Singapore it's most likely the distance that matters. Light travels fast, yet the delays are significantly sensible in a global scale.
- rahimnathwani 10y ago
  Not just distance. Some ISPs and hosting providers have direct peering with PCCW. Latency between a China residential connection and a host outside China cannot be predicted knowing just the location of the host. It can vary by up to 5x just depending on the peering/route.
danieltillett 10y ago
I already use a professional provider in China to colo the server. The issue in not the server (it works well within China) or the colo, but connecting to it securely from outside China via ssh. I can’t just hand over the running of this server to a Chinese team since it is not a webserver, but the relatively complex backend for the custom processing of genetic data.

ttflee 10y ago

In Singapore it's most likely the distance that matters. Light travels fast, yet the delays are significantly sensible in a global scale.

rahimnathwani 10y ago
Not just distance. Some ISPs and hosting providers have direct peering with PCCW. Latency between a China residential connection and a host outside China cannot be predicted knowing just the location of the host. It can vary by up to 5x just depending on the peering/route.

danieltillett 10y ago

I already use a professional provider in China to colo the server. The issue in not the server (it works well within China) or the colo, but connecting to it securely from outside China via ssh. I can’t just hand over the running of this server to a Chinese team since it is not a webserver, but the relatively complex backend for the custom processing of genetic data.