SickPuppy Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Has anyone researched the Hong Kong market? I am looking into it now, it might be possible if a few of us small GSPs pool our recourses. We are talking to a company now trying to get a good deal on a 1/2 rack with 15 Mbps. Still have not decided if building and shipping the servers will be cheaper than purchasing them from a Hong Kong source. It looks like the bandwidth is cheaper than Australia and it will be close enough to pick up some of the Australia market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIS-MOTHER Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 We have Shanghai but we only offer this to Enterprise clients at the moment. Not really enough call in the shared market over there in my opinion. To be honest, anything you host over there will need a Hardware Firewall. At least a ASA 5520 to handle the pounding your Network is gonna take so keep that in mind when pricing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Crothers Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there not a bunch of policies of which games you can and cannot offer in China? If you violate that policy don't you get shut down? I know Blizzard is having some problems with the Chinese gaming policies currently. If the very little information I think I know about Chinese gaming policy is correct, than I would have to imagine it would be more trouble than its worth. Also Chinese staff to do the Chinese tickets would be complicated I think, and Australia may or may not be blocked by the Great Firewall of China.... To many variables, I rather head to Japan with some servers, I know they are far more accepting of internet use than China and I happen to know that ColoCrossing does have resources available there, so it could be a good "in" into the Asian market. However to physically place your gear in China could be a major pain in the ass. Also to add to what Patrick said, you'll want a firewall for the constant botnet brute force traffic you'll receive. I do not for a fact that there are a bunch of Chinese hackers with some pretty big balls, they'll brute your stuff all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGN-Daniel Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there not a bunch of policies of which games you can and cannot offer in China? If you violate that policy don't you get shut down? I know Blizzard is having some problems with the Chinese gaming policies currently. If the very little information I think I know about Chinese gaming policy is correct, than I would have to imagine it would be more trouble than its worth. Also Chinese staff to do the Chinese tickets would be complicated I think, and Australia may or may not be blocked by the Great Firewall of China.... To many variables, I rather head to Japan with some servers, I know they are far more accepting of internet use than China and I happen to know that ColoCrossing does have resources available there, so it could be a good "in" into the Asian market. However to physically place your gear in China could be a major pain in the ass. Also to add to what Patrick said, you'll want a firewall for the constant botnet brute force traffic you'll receive. I do not for a fact that there are a bunch of Chinese hackers with some pretty big balls, they'll brute your stuff all day long. Hong Kong has typically been immune to several Chinese policies even though it's technically in China. I wouldn't be surprised if there were no restrictions on what you could host in Hong Kong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 We are talking to a company now getting all the regulations and restrictions on what can and can’t be hosted. I do believe that the rules for Hong Kong are different. As for the attacks on the server, we have already been attacked at 3 different U.S. data centers so what’s new about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Crothers Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 We are talking to a company now getting all the regulations and restrictions on what can and can’t be hosted. I do believe that the rules for Hong Kong are different. As for the attacks on the server, we have already been attacked at 3 different U.S. data centers so what’s new about that. Whats new is that the attacks will come in a large enough amount, and at a high enough rate to actually use bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 Also Chinese staff to do the Chinese tickets would be complicated I think, and Australia may or may not be blocked by the Great Firewall of China.... 支持在中國是不是一個問題 That says "Support in Chinese is not a problem" I can also translate 32 other languages as I often do for my French, Arabic and Spanish customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Crothers Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I'm willing to bet that the grammar is wrong Since ALL translators have improper syntax in the grammar. Rosetta Stone is also completely incorrect with the spoken languages grammar. So relying on a translator is simply going to make people say things like 延迟 or 傻驴 or 愚蠢的. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIS-MOTHER Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Also Chinamen for some reason go home and reply something like this to a ticket.. Hi, We are heading home and will have the next guy get it in the morning. LOL 12 hours later you might get a reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Crothers Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Also Chinamen for some reason go home and reply something like this to a ticket.. Hi, We are heading home and will have the next guy get it in the morning. LOL 12 hours later you might get a reboot. lol, is that a client or provider response ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Also Chinamen for some reason go home and reply something like this to a ticket.. Hi, We are heading home and will have the next guy get it in the morning. LOL 12 hours later you might get a reboot. You can find data centers in the US that do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Hong Kong can be done and it is not as difficult as you would think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbiloh Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 I know I always enjoy dealing with our techs in Tokyo. Good luck with the language barrier when something goes wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 I know I always enjoy dealing with our techs in Tokyo. Good luck with the language barrier when something goes wrong I have language barrier issues when dealing with the UK data center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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