Heroku is built on top of Amazon EC2. We're using the east coast datacenter. The connectivity is usually pretty good - Amazon does a great job there. At most, it adds 100-250ms latency to asia, but that shouldn't make things really slow.
We have on the todo list to support additional "regions" - today I believe amazon only has one in Europe, but are working to add one in asia somewhere. If EC2 is being filtered, this won't help though. Good luck, Oren On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia wrote: > > Hi - > > I'm developing an app hosted on Heroku. Target market is China. > > When accessed through a US-based VPN, the app runs smoothly as > expected. When accessed directly from the Chinese DSL connection, it > is really slow. > > China is famous for content filtering and blocking, which slows down > almost all connections to an extent. On my website, there is no > controversial content or anything objectionable to the government - > it's all about language lessons > > So, I wanted to hear from others (if anyone else is accessing Heroku > apps from China) - may it be simply that Heroku's infrastructure is > not well linked to key backbones in Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, etc.) - > any Heroku insider that can comment on closest infrastructure to Asia? > > Right now my app is in semi-staging in Heroku. But as the target > users are in China, if I don't solve the speed issues will be forced > to look other alternatives to host -- again, HK, Japan, Korea or even > mainland China... > > Thanks in advance for any insights! > > Juan C > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
