I stumbled upon greatfirewallofchina.org and decided to test if HTNet is one of the web sites blocked by it. The result is as follows:
The first question that came to my mind was; “Why?”! Then I did a quick search on HTNet and found this post. Yeah, that might probably be it.
Then I checked out my visitors stats for 2007:
I don’t seem to be lacking any Chinese visitors. Heck, they’re the fourth biggest consumers of my pages so far this year! Probably the test results are inaccurate. Or probably my Chinese visitors make use of proxies of some other methods of bypassing the Great Firewall of China.
If any Great Firewall of China firewall admins are reading this, then here’s an official message from me to you;
Comrades! HTNet is a China-friendly web site and we are more than happy to receive hits from your glorious nation. Please include HTNet in your whitelist
March 14th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Brother,
it’s cos your cheapskate reseller got his IP ADDRESS BLOCKED@!
My Traffic comes in from China and we are on the same IP SUBNET.
My 2c : Move off to a real HSP instead of 3rd party reseller.
Azrin @ http://www.azrin.info
SEO Engineering 101
March 14th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Nah, actually I reran the test two days ago. It seems that it got unblocked.
My hosting package may be “cheap”… but it’s stable and I have more control over my hosting environment compared to any other previous hosts I had, including my previous Malaysian incompetent web host.