Re:ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only ...
by nrser on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:02AM
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The further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make.
I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and how could you be doing something in the future?
Once you get into regions with a combination of censorship on the foreign-side and aggressive 'security' measures on the US-side (blocking/triggering on IP ranges of entire countries, VPN services, could services, etc... 'cause why would a legit user be coming in through anything like that, right?) then it really gets rough.
Generally, to reliably serve a country/region it requires specific expertise, personnel and/or infrastructure.
And BTW when I priced out a "reliable" connection in Beijing years ago it was around $1K USD/mo for 10Mb. Not exactly peanuts.
I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and how could you be doing something in the future?
Once you get into regions with a combination of censorship on the foreign-side and aggressive 'security' measures on the US-side (blocking/triggering on IP ranges of entire countries, VPN services, could services, etc... 'cause why would a legit user be coming in through anything like that, right?) then it really gets rough.
Generally, to reliably serve a country/region it requires specific expertise, personnel and/or infrastructure.
And BTW when I priced out a "reliable" connection in Beijing years ago it was around $1K USD/mo for 10Mb. Not exactly peanuts.