Can you sell to citizens of China?

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Hello Fellow Warriors,
I have a problem and I hope someone can help.

I have an website on Internet Marketing and it's getting so many views that the ISP told me yesterday to go to a vps(they don't have them). We're talking about 1.5 million page views a month - users get on and don't get off. The site is so busy it is basically shut down - I mean I can't get on it myself.

The problem is that 90% of the users are from China. Last night the thought came to me that I should move it to a vps and start charging a monthly subscription fee of say $15.

Do you think this is possible? What would you do?

Thanks,

Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Denise Hall
    Unless those people are buying something or interacting with your site, most likely they're spammers and/or hackers. If you're gaining nothing from them, you should block the IP's from viewing your site. Then you won't have to go to a VPS.
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    • Profile picture of the author laracoates28
      Originally Posted by Denise Hall View Post

      Unless those people are buying something or interacting with your site, most likely they're spammers and/or hackers. If you're gaining nothing from them, you should block the IP's from viewing your site. Then you won't have to go to a VPS.
      It's true. My sites face many attacks from China and get ban their IP for next 30 Days
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Smale
    If you're getting a site with that much traffic (or even 10% of that traffic) you should be on a VPS anyway.

    If they are Chinese IPs, just block them. Baidu (their search engine) also has a habit of eating up bandwidth, so block that, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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      如果它是关于兵马俑很有趣。
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  • Profile picture of the author CandyxLand
    It sounds like you're getting a DDOS (denial of service) attack more than anything. Did all of this traffic start all of a sudden? Are these visitors being referred from Google or are they going directly to your site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Toreador09
      Originally Posted by CandyxLand View Post

      It sounds like you're getting a DDOS (denial of service) attack more than anything. Did all of this traffic start all of a sudden? Are these visitors being referred from Google or are they going directly to your site?
      I don't mean to step on anybody's toes. I have just sold to US and Canada. China is a new thing.

      Has anybody sold to residents of China? Do they have PayPal? I don't know and I am just asking??


      I don't think that I am being spammed. I have only 25,000 uniques a month, but yet I have up to 700,000 503 codes a month (server busy).

      This traffic has been building over 6 months - not just a sudden thing. But now if I try to log in I get a 503 server busy after a 5 minute wait.

      Looking at AWSTATS I got 559 links from Google and 96 links from Baidu. Visits duration is distributed about evenly across the different times ie a lot of reading is going on. So far this month I've had 14,000 uniques. Yesterday I had 4,600 visits. I think there is a large number of repeat visitors/readers?

      I am in the process of deciding what VPS host to sign up with. Hostgator has something that looks acceptable to me and I probably will go with them.

      Thanks for any help,

      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author webgenco
        Hello, I don't believe you are in a DDOS attack just based on this thread. My company has experience working with Baidu and Chinese-language traffic. I also have some ideas for a VPS host if you are targeting Chinese traffic via Baidu. PM and we will see if we can help.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneWZ
    What's your site about? I'm Chinese, let's see if Chinese residents will be intersted.
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    • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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      Originally Posted by ShaneWZ View Post

      What's your site about? I'm Chinese, let's see if Chinese residents will be intersted.
      It's a competition page to guess the number of bricks in the Great Wall of China.

      Win a set meal for two at Mr Chows Restaurant.

      And to get you in the mood . . .

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      • Profile picture of the author ShaneWZ
        Originally Posted by Horny Devil View Post

        It's a competition page to guess the number of bricks in the Great Wall of China.

        Win a set meal for two at Mr Chows Restaurant.

        And to get you in the mood . . .

        Pink Floyd -- The Wall [[ Official Video ]] - YouTube
        Well, chance is little. Most Chinese just pass by when they see a English site.
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    good luck if you can!
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    This is a proxy site, right? They're downloading porn for free
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hlatky
    Originally Posted by hirechrisgunn View Post

    Is 400,000,004 too low?
    Probably. I found the number 3,873,000,000 on Wiki Answers, so that HAS to be correct
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    • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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      Originally Posted by hirechrisgunn View Post

      Is 400,000,004 too low?
      That's pretty precise guessing

      Originally Posted by Mike Hlatky View Post

      Probably. I found the number 3,873,000,000 on Wiki Answers, so that HAS to be correct
      That's pretty precise cheating :rolleyes:
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