China Application Reachability
Your application is hosted outside China and your Chinese users feel it — slow loads, timeouts, and unstable connections across the international border. We put a managed edge layer between your origin and those users: near-shore edge nodes that cache, terminate TLS, and carry traffic back to origin over optimized cross-border paths. Your domain needs no ICP filing and no mainland entity, and onboarding is a single CNAME record — no TXT verification, no nameserver migration. Your infrastructure does not move, your data stays where it already lives, and your team keeps one origin and one deployment pipeline.
Key benefits
- Your domain needs no ICP filing, because traffic terminates on near-shore nodes outside the mainland — no mainland entity required
- Cutover is one CNAME record and rollback is a single record update — no TXT verification, no nameserver migration, no code freeze, no migration window, no change to your application
- Delivered as a combination of Edge Acceleration and Cloud Connect, with one provider owning the edge, the certificates, and the cross-border path
- Chinese-user traffic is reported against the metrics that matter there — load time, cache hit ratio, and origin fetch latency — rather than a global average
- WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot control, and rate limiting enforced at the edge, before traffic reaches your origin — your real IP stays unexposed
Who it's for
Global SaaS platforms, e-commerce sites, and application teams with a material mainland Chinese user base whose origin is hosted overseas. Companies that are not ready to build mainland infrastructure but need China traffic to perform properly.
Our approach
We map your application's traffic profile, separate cacheable from dynamic paths, and design the edge configuration around it. An alias domain is provisioned for your service so end users stay on your brand. Cutover happens by DNS, which means rollback is a single record change. We tune caching, WAF, and routing against live traffic and report on load time, cache hit ratio, and origin fetch latency throughout.
Architecture overview
Architecture diagram
How it works
We provision and configure the infrastructure components, coordinate across providers, and deliver a fully operational solution — with ongoing management and support.
Is this your use case?
Talk to our architects about tailoring China Application Reachability to your specific requirements.
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