Martin, DreamHost in California currently offers S3-compatible object storage
(currently $0.04 / GB) and is in the process of rolling out a computing
platform similar to Heroku. They??re extremely friendly to non-profits and
other do-gooders so I bet they??d be interested in hearing from you.
Good Luck!
James
On Mar 5, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Martin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are running unblockable mirrors of some websites that are blocked in
> China. They are unblockable because:
> ?6?1 They cannot be blocked by DNS poisoning or IP blocking without
> also bringing down all other content on the same host (s3.amazonaws.com).
> ?6?1 They cannot be blocked based on keywords because they are accessed
> over HTTPS.
> An example mirror site:
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html
> The approach works very well but it does mean that we rely on Amazon. Do you
> know any alternative hosting services which offer the same advantages as S3?
> Namely:
> ?6?1 Files can be accessed on a general host (not through
> account-specific subdomains).
> ?6?1 HTTPS is supported.
> Google does offer such a service (Cloud Storage) but it's already blocked in
> China. Microsoft Azure and Rackspace apparently only support account-specific
> subdomains.
>
> Suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
> Martin
>
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