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CDN and countries blocking it?
concerto49
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Anyone with more experience/knowledge on this?
Considering using CDN e.g. for JavaScript, but heard that's blocked in China?
What country block these CDNs and which CDNs are blocked? Are the CloudFlare js/css CDN likely to be blocked or a good choice? What about Amazon?
Thanks.
Considering using CDN e.g. for JavaScript, but heard that's blocked in China?
What country block these CDNs and which CDNs are blocked? Are the CloudFlare js/css CDN likely to be blocked or a good choice? What about Amazon?
Thanks.
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Thanks, but what about other countries?
Other countries do not censor CDNs, this is a chinese thing.
GFW just stink. (peek at my sig)
Another GFW test site: https://en.greatfire.org
this is a "China" thing
@concerto49 btw i use aws cloudfront
Amazon CloudFront is pretty solid, although I've heard good things about MaxCDN. Never tried them, though.
CloudFront is slow in my location
They have 2 PoPs in Hong Kong.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#details
but still slow
And that's not so easy to bypass GFW(We Usually call this "翻墙")
Theres Chinacache... but as they are in China its obviously hard to use them (but they have many pops outside China as well)
Most CDNs have POPs in China so I don't think they have any issues. Plus why would the block just static content of a website?
It only makes sense to block the actual domain that serves the content.
They block the entire CDN domain sometimes, e.g. blocking Google entirely or Microsoft.