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Why Some China Routes Get Worse During Golden Week and Other National Holidays
China's major national holidays create predictable spikes in domestic network usage that can degrade even a normally solid China route. Here's why it happens, which holidays matter most, and how to plan around it.
What Changes About Rate Limiting When a Meaningful Share of Your Legitimate Traffic Comes From China
Standard per-IP rate limiting can quietly block real users when a meaningful share of your traffic comes from China, where carrier-grade NAT means many legitimate users can share a single public IP address. Here's what to adjust.
What Does "Jitter" Mean for a China Route, and Why Does It Matter More Than Average Latency?
Average latency looks fine on a lot of "good enough" China routes, but jitter, the variation between individual packets, is often what actually breaks a real-time app. Here's what jitter is, why it matters more than the average, and how to check for it.
Why Packet Loss, Not Just Latency, Is the Metric That Actually Predicts a Bad China Route
A China route can post a perfectly reasonable average latency and still be unusable if packet loss is high. Here's why packet loss is often the better early-warning signal, and how to actually check for it.
Introducing China-Optimized Routing for Tokyo and Singapore
V.PS's Performance KVM VPS in Tokyo and Singapore now includes China-optimized routing across all three major carriers, CTGNet, CUP, and CMIN2, giving customers a better path for traffic to and from mainland China. Here's what's changing, why it matters, and how to get started.
Is Singapore, Japan, or Hong Kong Better for Hosting Content Intended for Mainland China?
Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong all come up constantly in the same China-facing hosting conversation, but each has a genuinely different profile. Here's what carrier routing, jurisdiction, and regional connectivity each location actually offers.
What Are China-Optimized Routes?
China-optimized routing gets mentioned constantly without much explanation of what it actually means. Here's what the term refers to, why it exists, and what it does and doesn't guarantee.
Why Carrier Routing Matters Just As Much, If Not More, Than Location for a China-Facing Server
It's a natural assumption that the closer a server is to your users, the faster it'll perform, but for China-facing hosting that's often wrong. Here's why carrier routing quality matters just as much, if not more, than raw distance, and how to evaluate a provider on the metric that actually counts.
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