topic Re: web site in Archive

web site

hammy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:07:23 GMT

Don't know if this is the right forum. My friend in china as been trying to open my web site and gets a (cant view this page). but he can open other web sites ending in .co.uk Tried to send him direct links to a specific page but same answer

??? help please

hammy

Re: web site

duskjome — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:08:38 GMT

This is probably related to the firewall issue in china, being referred to colloquially as the great firewall of china. It seems to be effecting shared hosting most of all so a possible workaround would be to get an SSL certificate (which would net you a dedicated IP) but this solution does not always work and will cost extra. Here is a link to an article with more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China hope this helps.

Re: web site

alastair — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:21:37 GMT

China is terrible for blocking websites and IPs in general.

and..... as you can imagine there are a ton of PCs in china. for some reason they don't believe in security and there are alot of "zombie" PCs in china so alot of chinese ip addresses are blocked by other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_computer

Re: web site

dave — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:15:26 GMT

It is likely to be the so called 'great firewall' that Duskjome mentioned.

It is a common problem with shared hosting providers unfortunately. It only takes one user of the server to put up something they find objectionable and the whole server IP gets blocked.