When a user calls up your website, a data connection is established
between the user's computer and the server on which your website is
hosted. The web server might be in Europe or America, so the data for
a Chinese user must be delivered from Europe/Amer...
For websites hosted outside mainland China, the main reasons for poor
performance when accessing them from China are that the external
connection to the Internet in the West is throttled and the "Great
Firewall of China" is positioned between the user and...
Any website hosted in China requires a valid ICP license
[https://service.weber.digital/index.php?/en/Knowledgebase/Article/View/what-is-an-icp-license-types--requirements]
under Chinese law. The corresponding ICP number must be displayed
visibly on the c...
CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN)
A Content Delivery Network is a network of several geographically
distributed, but connected servers. When a user makes a request, this
system helps to assign the best server to them based on certain key
figures (such as th...
As a user of a global CDN, you provide access to your website, your
online shop or your web application in general via globally
distributed locations. This means that every user, no matter where
they are in the world, always has the shortest possible acce...
If one wants to access Western websites, applications and services
from mainland China, one quickly has to realize that this is only
possible very slowly. The conclusion that the geographical distance
and thus the longer packet runtimes are solely respons...
The Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China
(中华人民共和国广告法)
[http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/2015-04/25/content_2853642.htm], which came
into force in 1994 and was revised in 2015, defines regulations
regarding advertising within China and is therefore a...
Just like Google in the West, Baidu is primarily known in China as the
largest search engine, but it also provides various other services
through which, for example, search engine advertising can be placed
(Baidu Tuiguang) or with which one's own website ...
As the largest social network, WeChat is ubiquitous in China. However,
WeChat is much more than we are used to here in the West from social
networks like Facebook or messengers like WhatsApp, as it goes far
beyond the classic functions - for example, WeCh...
Although the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China
(中华人民共和国网络安全法)
[http://www.cac.gov.cn/2016-11/07/c_1119867116.htm] (CSL) already came
into force in June 2017 many Western companies are still in
uncertainty about which areas of the Cyberse...
.CN DOMAINS AND THEIR SECOND-LEVEL DOMAIN EXTENSIONS
The domain extension .cn is the country-specific top-level domain
(TLD) of the People's Republic of China and is one of the most popular
and fastest growing domain extensions worldwide. In addition to ...
