Amazon EC2 in china is not going to be anything brilliant. I think you need to consider rackspace HK in this case. They recently has VPS (Cloud) service in Hong Kong- not as automated as heroku, unfortunately comparing to china access you probably need to trade off.
On 19 Mar, 2014, at 2:37 pm, Erik Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Wondering if anything has changed on this front? My app is very slow loading > from China > > On Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:43:26 AM UTC+8, Oren Teich wrote: > 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
