[176082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inside China GFW - basic dedicated server or cloud instance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Nov 11 20:05:14 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 06:35:06 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrius Kasparavicius <andrius@andrius.org>, nanog@nanog.org
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The other thing is, it is pretty much useless to measure connectivity
speed, or path through the gfw from a colo box when your users in the
mainland are using broadband or maybe dedicated leased lines.
On Nov 11, 2014 10:37 PM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can try AWS China, but I think you need an ICP license for that.
>
> -Grant
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Andrius Kasparavicius <
> andrius@andrius.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Business needs some permanent basic browser/tcp/ip view from *inside
> China
> > great firewall* (Hong Kong or unfirewalled locations not good) for
> > connectivity testing, troubleshooting for customers in China. Ideally
> just
> > a dedicated windows box/server. Are there any simple providers with
> > self-provisioning VPS or similar low cost solutions. Best to have it on
> > ChinaTel network. No hosting or content would be shared from this box.
> > Thanks
> >
>