[SWLUG] Anything one can do if one's (non-political, non-scary) website is banned in China?

[Chris King]

On Wed, February 16, 2011 12:47, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:00:24 +0000
> Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 February 2011 08:16, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> wrote:
>> > Fortunately a friend has a server with spare capacity so I'm going
>> > to try migrating to that and then I'll write to the people who've
>> > contacted me from China to see if they can reach it.
>> >
>>
>> Would it be worth checking with them first if they can reach another
>> page on the server that you propose to migrate to?
>> That would save you a migration only to find it still doesn't work...
>
> Yes, but I want to move anyway since my ISP doesn't provide logs so I
> have no idea what traffic I get---something I will get if I move.

Mark

Apologies for the delay in getting back to this thread - I've been sorting
out my study, rebuilding machines etc - but I did find another interesting
little tool which might help:

http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html

This returns a timeout for http://www.qtrac.eu/ but came back clean for
http://www.csking.co.uk/ (hosted at Mythic Beasts on shared web hosting).

Try this out with a page hosted on your friend's server and see what
result you get back - test against Beijing and Munich, they seem to return
results faster than the other sites.

Chris

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Chris King
http://www.csking.co.uk/