There are a number of requirements for a web application to be hosted in China servers so that there are no constraints or latency for China users to access it as any other user.
We have a costumer for which we are planning to generate static pages (which content comes from Contentful) and host those in Chinese CDN, but we need to make sure the Contentful platform itself can be access by the content editors located in China, without any issues.
Already look in documentation but found nothing about this. Is there anyone that can help figure out this with some urgency?
This is a difficult problem to solve with a SaaS API product - the nature of connections between the EU/US and China coupled with the firewall means calling the Content API is likely to be extremely unreliable, slow, or blocked because its over HTTPS.
one thing you could do is somehow create a webhook to push the content to an intermediary layer which then syncs into a China-native datastore. I’ve done something similar before with a publishing CMS platform (not Contentful), in the end having to create a custom UDP transport to get the transfer speeds up, even then it could take hours on mass publishes and the reliability was pretty bad and because it was UDP you had no real way of knowing if it had worked
It looks like 21YunBox has a solution where you can now use Contentful seamlessly in mainland China. Below is a link to a blog if you want more details.
