why you should host your content in china

Why You Should Host Your Content in China

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FOREIGN DATACENTER HOSTING



WHY YOU SHOULD HOST IN CHINA

• Many global companies want to host their content in one place and serve it to the whole world, including China.

• In reality, a centralized deployment isn't possible due to unique issues with China's Internet infrastructure.

• Take these key issues into consideration before deciding to host your business platform outside of China.



Achieving performance at any price outside of China is an ongoing challenge. The main factors that affect performance are speed, connection stability, and location.

PERFORMANCE



PERFORMANCE

• China has poor International Internet connectivity.

• The small number of ocean cables that connect China with the US and Japan are often overloaded and congested.

• A direct result of this strain is high latency and slow connections.



PERFORMANCE• Cross-border reliability and stability is not enough for a real

business to serve users in China.

• Many international services are likewise unusable due to unstable connections and occasional outages.

• Deciding where to host your site outside of China can still present a problem as there are few good locations.



Ensuring that your site is up and available is crucial to having a successful business in China. Several elements can compromise availability such as International connectivity, the Great Firewall, and location.

AVAILABILITY



AVAILABILITY• International availability can be good one day and bad the

next, with connectivity being a prime factor.

• Any disruption can cause problems with your website for an hour, day, week, or more.

• Connections traversing the Great Firewall can be erratic and unstable over time.



AVAILABILITY• Any change in China's content filtering techniques can spell

disaster for your website.

• Location matters, especially when users will pull your site from all over the country.

• Having your servers centralized in one area isn't always a good choice, even with a CDN.



When deciding to host your site outside of China the level of control you have over censorship is a key factor.

Websites hosted outside of China have no leeway in following rules and mitigating problems, which can lead to disastrous consequences.

MITIGATION CONCERNS



MITIGATION CONCERNS• Content hosted in foreign data centers is susceptible to strict

regulatory challenges and can be blocked for a variety of reasons.

• Entire websites can be censored for just being in the same datacenter as another system that happens to be serving prohibited content.

• Data centers located outside of Mainland China have little to no relationship with the various Chinese telecom companies.

• When challenges arise, there is no out-of-band way to help smooth things over.



If Chinese domestic and international users must share the same system, then a single system is usually best placed in Hong Kong.

WHAT ABOUT HOSTING IN HONG KONG?



WHAT ABOUT HOSTING IN HONG KONG?

• Direct connections to Hong Kong are still intermittent at best and susceptible to slowdowns as well as periodic outages.

• CDNs and careful monitoring can help manage and reduce intermittent connection issues but not resolve them.



Even among premium data centers, choosing the right physical facility with the most suitable bandwidth is critical to the best user experience across the range of common connection routes.

HOW CHINANETCLOUD CAN HELP




• ChinaNetCloud has partnerships with the industry's leading companies such as Aliyun, 21ViaNet, ChinaNetNenter, and ChinaCache.

• Our partner network ensures that you have access to the best technology to help you get your message out to the masses.




• ChinaNetCloud partners with all the premium data centers in China.

• These data centers are located all around China and at varying price points that are suitable for a variety of uses, from interactive systems to low-cost streaming media delivery sites.

ABOUT CHINANETCLOUDFounded in Shanghai in 2008, ChinaNetCloud is one of the world's largest Internet Managed Services provider.

Our focus is on server operations, especially Reliability, Performance, Scale, Security, and Cost Savings.

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