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My company is setting up a website for the Chinese market and I am facing a tricky problem: hosting
As hosting in China is virtually impossible for us and hosting in Europe is not a good solution (connection too slow for Chinese users), we are considering hosting our website in HK with a provider who assured he can get us a fast connection with China.
This company gave us three IP addresses as examples:
1/ their own
2/ companyX.com hosted with them
3/ companyY.com.hk hosted with them
I did some route tracing from two servers in China, one in Beijing, the other in Shanghai.
It gives me two very different results:
1/ and 2/ are very fast from both Shanghai and Beijing. The routes goe straight from China to HK.
3/ is quite slow from Shanghai with straight route from Shanghai to HK, and is very slow from Beijing with route passing by Anaheim and L.A., Ca.
What could explain such a difference? Could it have something to do with the top level domain? or the DNS?
I hope you have a few ideas on this.
thanks for your help
effisk
We had a thread a few months ago that went into this issue a bit: The importance of hosting Top Sites in China; Myth or Reality? [webmasterworld.com] There are some speed issues and it seems to be more of a hardware infrastructure problem than anything else.
I did see the thread you mention when I opened this topic but some questions were not answered.
Anyway I eventually chose to have my website hosted in HK. The provider gave me an IP range to test for connection speed with China. My website is within this IP range, it's extremely fast with Shanghai, quite fast with Beijing, I'm glad I didn't have to go thru the hassle of setting up the hosting in China.
The speed is also fast with Europe, which is also important as we need to administrate the website from here.
cheers
effisk, happy camper.
