[liberationtech] S3 alternative?

[Martin Johnson]

Thanks Nathan. We are using GitHub already as an overview of our mirrors (
https://github.com/greatfire/wiki). We want alternatives for hosting whole
sites too though.

马丁・约翰逊 / Martin Johnson
Founder of GreatFire.org and FreeWeibo.com | PGP
key<https://en.greatfire.org/contact>


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Nathan of Guardian <
nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

> Github? Maybe not whole sites, but specific files.
>
> On March 5, 2014 7:31:49 PM PST, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are running unblockable mirrors of some websites that are blocked in
>> China. They are unblockable because:
>>
>>    1. They cannot be blocked by DNS poisoning or IP blocking without
>>    also bringing down all other content on the same host (
>>    s3.amazonaws.com).
>>    2. They cannot be blocked based on keywords because they are accessed
>>    over HTTPS.
>>
>> An example mirror site:
>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html
>> The approach works very well but it does mean that we rely on Amazon. Do
>> you know any alternative hosting services which offer the same advantages
>> as S3? Namely:
>>
>>    1. Files can be accessed on a general host (not through
>>    account-specific subdomains).
>>    2. HTTPS is supported.
>>
>> Google does offer such a service (Cloud Storage) but it's already blocked
>> in China. Microsoft Azure and Rackspace apparently only support
>> account-specific subdomains.
>>
>> Suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Martin
>> 马丁・约翰逊 / Martin Johnson
>> Founder of GreatFire.org and FreeWeibo.com | PGP key<https://en.greatfire.org/contact>
>>
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