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How Much Bandwidth Does a China-Facing Site Actually Use? Estimating Monthly Transfer Before You Pick a Plan
Estimate monthly transfer for a China-facing website, store, API, or download server, including hidden traffic, port speeds, and capacity headroom.
How to Serve Large File Downloads to Mainland China From a Tokyo VPS
Improve large file downloads to mainland China with route testing, TCP tuning, resumable transfers, checksums, and bandwidth planning on a Tokyo VPS.
How to Put a Tokyo VPS in Front of a US or European Origin Server to Speed Up China Visitors
Set up a Tokyo VPS as a reverse proxy for a US or European origin, with Nginx caching, origin protection, and testing for visitors in mainland China.
Why Your Speed Test Looks Great but Real Users in China Still Complain
Learn why China speed tests can miss real user problems, and measure carrier differences, peak-hour congestion, page loads, and visitor experience.
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.