중국에서 자체 호스팅 시 Discourse 내장 서비스 차단 여부

우리는 상당한 규모의 포럼을 보유하고 있으며, 이를 Discourse 플랫폼으로 마이그레이션하기를 원합니다. GFW 문제를 피하기 위해 Aliyun 클라우드에서 자체 호스팅을 계획하고 있습니다. 저는 Discourse 플랫폼의 소스 코드가 Facebook/Google 또는 중국에서 차단된 기타 서비스로 요청을 보내는지 우려스럽고 걱정됩니다. 만약 그렇다면 Discourse를 선택하는 것을 포기해야 합니다. 정말 안타까운 일입니다.

I had recently worked on aliyun for a client and had no difficulty setting up discourse.

Discourse doesn’t make any calls to Facebook or Google except in case you’re using the social logins which are optional.

The source code is hosted on Github and some dependencies are downloaded in the form of ruby gems. Almost everything else is coming from the OS repo. There may be a few items being downloaded from elsewhere but nothing hindered the process of setting up discourse in my experience.

Hi @itsbhanusharma Thanks for reply. how along does your client run their website. Only concern for when we running the site, there’s package in Discourse requesting a outbound request.

I’m afraid I don’t have a concrete answer for that. I’m not too familiar with all the packages being used by discourse. However, there was no functional impairment in discourse on aliyun except for some slight mods like using china specific template while setting up discourse.

Thank you @itsbhanusharma that makes sense. :+1: Will look into self-host solution.

Aliyun hk is a better choose than the mainland if you want to avoid the gfw only and dont need to care about the beian system. You know sometime is hard to access ruby gem and github repo or any popular internet resource under the gfw.