Ask HN: Hosting in China

My company actually uses hosting in Hong Kong. But to note, in HK you can still get blocked by the firewall, but they respond quickly and change IP's. Dedicated/VPS solutions not so easy.<p>You will also need an ICP number for hosting inside mainland China. This is linked to the IP number. You need this.

Do you speak Chinese? I'm an American working in China, and I can point you to a number of sites that offer hosting here, though the sites are almost exclusively in Chinese. Feel free to shoot me an email: zachkoch@gmail.com.

This topic has been discussed a number of times on chinese-forums.com (<a href="http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-5008220562729147%3A7zul9k-rsau&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;q=hosting&#38;siteurl=www.chinese-forums.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcore%26module%3Dsearch%26do%3Dsearch%26fromMainBar%3D1%3Fs%3D43baef949395cd4543355743acfaa0e4" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-5008220562729147%3A...</a>)

As a student studying abroad in Shanghai right now, I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by the speed at which the sites I host at slicehost.com load. Granted, when I ssh in to manage the stack it lags quite a bit, but it seems you'll probably be developing from the US side.<p>In summary, I think that any good US hosting service probably has reliable speeds in China too.<p>On a different tangent, I'm currently writing a research paper on differences between US and Chinese business practices. If you could answer some questions, or me to someone that'd be great! ysh4u@virginia.edu

Why does the hosting have to be chinese? The advantage of internet based startups is that everything is global. I'm sure there are great hostings in South Korea, for instance.

i'm a chinese,it's too complicate to offering a web service in china,because you have to get a bunch of licences from the government,and the censorship,you know. so,it's better hosting your web at like ec2,linode or something. or you can check this out <a href="http://www.net.cn" rel="nofollow">http://www.net.cn</a>

candis.com.cn is the only one to use!