Website Blocked by The Great Firewall of China (GFW)

littleaotearoa

Hello everyone,

I understand this issue is not related with aaPanel but I'd like to seek some advice from developers in this community.

Back in July I switched from web hosting company to self managed VPS (Linode). I'm glad that I made the decision to use aaPanel as the hosting panel after trialing different panels such as virtualmin, DirectAdmin and CyberPanel. The installations and daily operations of aaPanel are very straigntforward.

I'm based in New Zealand. Recently I've been working on a project for a New Zealand educational institution. The website content needs to be accessible by their students around the world including students currently (and physically) in Mainland China.

Current situation,
Linode VPS A (Sydney) --> IP address A --> hosts 2 websites (website-a.com & website-b.com)

website-a.com --> not accessible from China
website-b.com --> accessible from China

Linode VPS B (Sydney) --> IP address B --> hosts 1 website (website-c.com)

website-c.com --> accessible from China

At the beginning, I noticed website-a.com is blocked by GFW. I thought that GFW blocks website by it's IP address as website-c.com hosted on Server B has a different IP and it's accessible. Later on I found out that website-b.com hosted on Server A can be accessed from China. Now I'm confused...

The majority of the users are from NZ or other countries therefore they can access the website easily.
I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on this.

Mansoor

Simply they blocked your domain address
maybe you are using some content inside website working under that domain name or maybe a word or combinations of characters which are added as abusive words in the forbidden dictionary of GFW.
there are several websites which can check or trace your website behind GFW which you can use them to check status of your website availablity.
if your doomain URL is not blocked, you can simply bypass this by using CDN services (if your customers are inside china, alibaba or other chinese CDN could be a choice)