Blog blocked by GFW

October 18th, 2008   Filed under Blog on blog

You may be not able to access my blog for several days earlier this week. I could not either, but strange is that I can access it from my office. I guess that’s because my office server is at Singapore. So I turn to Hostermonster for help. The hostmonster stuff tell me that my website maybe blocked by the Great Fire Wall and suggest me do an url test using InternetSupervision.com which can test your websit availability from a dozen of countries. Using this I found that my website can be visited from all arond the world but for China. This proved my suspision. In fact, it’s not my website blocked by the GFW but someone else’s website with which I shared the same IP address. Since there’s no hope that the GFW would lift the ban, I have to figure out another way. So I bougth a dedicated IP address from Hostermonster at a cost of 3.5$/month.

My dedicated IP address is 67.222.56.*** From now on, as long as I don’t offend GFW’s rule my site would be safe.

This is a screenshot of the availability of ideatalks, it’s safe now.

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