[thelist] Server presence in China

Moe Rubenzahl MoeRubenzahl at forpaws.org
Wed Jan 15 21:38:00 CST 2003


I work for a medium-sized manufacturing company with a
business-to-business website. We have a small shared server in
mainland China and plan to upgrade it to a more substantial dynamic
site.

The rest of the world is served by our servers in Northern California
(co-lo). I have been told that mainland China is different -- because
of bandwidth issues in and out of the country and government control
issues, a server inside China is essential. That government workers
and many companies cannot access Internet sources outside their
borders. But another source tells me this is not true.

My questions:

1. Is this true or can I serve China well from my US-based server
(which has plenty of bandwidth)?

2. While I am rasing this question, how about the rest of the world?
Should I be looking at a distributed provider, like Akamai?

3. Any suggestions for how I can measure my performance worldwide?
Keynote? Mercury Interactive? Or is that overkill for this.

Thanks in advance....

Moe




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