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Site for Chinese Market

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I'm still researching the "worse case" possibilities. If the Chinese gov found something offensive on the site and wanted to start directly monitoring the person I'm not exactly sure how they go about that.

I'm actually starting to think that I'm going to need two separate sites. One for the "West" and one for the "Far East".

China has a great policy... either you give them what they want or they'll block public access to your site for the entire country.

Site for Chinese Market

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I'm developing a community and trying to figure out how I can have a separate Chinese site. I don't want to run into issues with the China and their censor issues.

Does anyone have an idea how I can have the main site and a Chinese site without them being two separate sites? If I'm required to give the Chinese data, I don't want to give them data from the whole sites other countries.

Is there a bridge between installs? Or will I just have to have a completely separate site which serves the Chinese market?

This isn't some kind of illegal site or anything. I just know that China has strict demands on web developers especially ones out of country. If I need to give them access to the site for moderation reasons, I don't want to give them access to the entire site, which would include non-Chinese accounts.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
updated by @jimmy: 06/24/16 03:52:19PM

MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time by 34 Percent

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"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/system-loads-web%20pages-34-percent-faster-0309
updated by @jimmy: 06/16/16 07:55:19AM

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I was talking about the VC video you made. I have no idea if it's in the docs or not.

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I've been using git for awhile now. When I tried to set up version control in PHPStorm and I got the git error, I wasn't sure what was going on. I figured that git was part of the program... being that git is open source and all and the VC is local. Then I realized after searching online that I actually have to install git as software on my computer. I guess I didn't put 2 + 2 together and realize that since I have to install git on Linux, I would also have to install it on Windows. I've only ever used git on Linux and usually install it without thinking when I setup the system.

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@michael I was watching your PHPstorm VC video and you might want to mention that Windows users need to install Git to be able to use Git locally. With your Linux system, it's installed. With a Windows system - which I'm guessing most people are using - git needs to be installed.

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Yea, then I'm going to be getting promo emails from Mailgun for the next year!

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Is the managed service part of their standard account or an add-on?

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Here's a graph of all the providers.

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/transactional-emailing-providers-mailjet-sendgrid-critsend

Here's a good email testing tool.

http://www.mail-tester.com/


updated by @jimmy: 02/26/16 02:49:30AM

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You make a good point about SparkPost. I'm not really sure how old they are. I just started researching this today when Mandrill, who I use for IPB forum, decided to force everyone to use MailChimp for a much higher price.

Not sure about your second thought though, good question.

Though, have 100K free sends per month is nice with SparkPost. I can't say I'd use 100K, but it's nice to have nevertheless.

I do like MailGun. But having multiple options if a provider decides to do what Mandrill did - forcing users to basically pay more and join MailChimp - might be a good thing.
updated by @jimmy: 02/26/16 02:20:50AM