I had order hostony servers last year and it serve for my four websites. These days any one in China and some other countries inform me that they can not visit my websites. I have contactd with the hostony support team. But they said they can visit my sites there. And it is my local ISP problem. But I think if it is our local isp problem, why visitors from other countries also can not visit my sites.

They said they can visit my sites. It is right, of course, all my websites data has been located in their server, they naturally can visit their local server data. It just like, we can visit our own computor data.

I hope to hear satisfied reply from the support team from Hostony.

I need details please... Domain name, your country and local IP. Can'y you access the site as well?

Also... we access sites remotely as you do.

my sites are:

http://www.orientarts.com
http://www.fengshuisources.com
http://www.china-fengshui.com
http://www.fengshuisales.com

I am from China, but more customers in different countries inform me they also can not visit my sites.

Another, I also can not access helm, also can not access ftp use my id and password, also can not receive emails account used your server.

Sites are ok indeed.

Looks like there is a net. problem between your and the server.
Is your IP 218.85.215.1..?

It is my IP.

But please be noted, there are very more customers from other countries, like UK, France, German and others also can not visit my websites.

I also try to use mobile to access my sites, it also does not work.

Best regards,
Jiahong Xie

Have a look at this
e.g. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ping.ch?ip=orientarts.com
You can monitor this link and you will see that there is no any problem with the server.

I just visited all the sites from the UK and they all appeared fine. Doesn't solve your problem but at least you know UK based customers can view the sites.

I had a quick look from West Coast of Canada, sites look fine to me as well.

I test your sites from Argentine (South America) and looks fine, I can access them.

I just tried them from the middle of Canada and they all work.

Melmak

I have a reseller accounts and browsers in China can access my website.

(except that there is another kind of problem at the moment , that will hopefully be solved soon)

(maybe you want say "can't access")

im in your website right now Stephane.

ever hear of the "great firewall of china" ?

chinese censors maybe blocking you.

China blocks Wikipedia

Posted 06/14/2004 @ 12:33 PM
by Ken "Caesar" Fisher

Ten days ago the Chinese government blocked Internet access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia, a community-built encyclopedia that polices itself with a policy of political neutrality. This past weekend that block was extended to include other language versions as well. To some, the block was a surprise.

Chinese Wikipedia, which has not previously been blocked by Chinese censors, had been held up by observers as an example of openness on the Internet in China. In addition, the site, which has had a low profile and a relatively small group of regular contributors, was seen as a gauge of government tolerance for the free flow of information on the Internet in China
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As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing 'repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression,' the regime continues to block discourse.On Friday, China began blocking access to Typepad, a paid weblog hosting service in San Mateo, California. The communist regime previously blocked access to BlogSpot, Blogger's free hosting site. Yan Sham-Shackleton filed a report on the Glutter weblog, mentioning China is '...now using blocking software to stop information from leaking into the county via personal sites, an increasingly vibrant China Internet community, and a place where users are slipping in banned information. Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.'"
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Bypassing China's net firewall
Numerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China's censorship of the internet, reports technology correspondent Clark Boyd.

Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.

He has been amazed by the rapidly growing number of people in China who can join him in cyberspace.

But he has also watched as Beijing tries to keep tighter and tighter control over those Chinese web users.

Mr Xia says he got fed up with the way the Chinese authorities control access to information on the web

"I started realising the media controls in China. And then I realised the internet presented a great opportunity to get around those media controls," he said.

In 2001, Mr Xia and some other US-based volunteers started Dynamic Internet Technology.

The company helps Chinese web users get around China's firewall.

Net bypass

The way the company does it is not new. It allows a user inside China to access the internet, not through a system controlled by the government, but through a proxy server.

"The basic method of these technologies is to find a helpful computer in the United States or Canada or Europe that is willing to act as an intermediary for requests," said Ben Edelman, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

What we're trying to build is a network of trust among people who know each other, rather than a large tech network that people can just tap into
Nart Villeneuve, The Citizen Lab
Mr Edelman cites the example of a website that China often censors, the BBC. The country will block the BBC's domain name - bbc.co.uk.

But, a friendly intermediary in, say, Canada, could help to bypass the controls.

"You might find a computer at the University of Toronto that is willing to get you the BBC, and provide it to you with a domain that says toronto.ca, it doesn't say BBC," he explained.

"China would never think Toronto would have the BBC, what an odd combination, and so you'd be able to get the BBC site that way."

It means the BBC site is accessible through a different web address. But how do you tell users in China how to find it?

WOW

if we loose chinese visitors, we loose the 50% of the world people
(kisses to china)

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thanks for your replies, and I am very satisfied with your service.
Maybe it is the reason from China goverment.

Thanks again.

http://www.orientarts.com
http://www.fengshuisources.com
http://www.china-fengshui.com
http://www.fengshuisales.com

ORIENTARTS GROUP TEAM

All sites work now. We are investigating causes of outage.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thanks for your help before for my host.

I find I can enter helm account by 69.56.161.187. So I think that I will review my site use 69.56.161.187. Please transfer my domains to the ip address so we can update our website.

domains include;
www.orientarts.com
www.fengshuisources.com
www.china-fengshui.com
www.fengshuisales.com

Best regards,
Jiahong Xie