Does netlify serve traffic from mainland China visitor well?

[syang]

We have an SPA react web app that we need to serve visitors from mainland China, does Netlify CDN serve mainland China well?

Thanks

[hrishikesh]

This might help:

Site blocked in China? Netlify and the Chinese Great Firewall (GFW)

Hi folks! As I’m sure you know, we don’t have any control over what is blocked by the Great Firewall. However, most of the testing tools out there don’t do a good job of testing “is your Netlify website unloadable in China”, but instead do something like this: do an outside-of-China DNS lookup of your site. All DNS lookups come from one location, so one answer is received by the tool from “outside the firewall”. If you have dns configured optimally (see this article for more details on the …

[Sam92]

Hey @Syang, We had similar stability issues with Netlify’s CDNs in mainland China. Then we found 21CloudBox Edge. It’s PaaS ( kinda like Netlify) but is optimized for CDN delivery in mainland China.

Just be sure to check out the legal requirements to host in mainland China as they are a bit different than elsewhere (i.e. ICP, Data Privacy, etc.).

Also, here is a link to one of their blogs I found helpful in explaining why and how the Great Firewall impacts services like Netlify inside China.