# Timeouts innerhalb des chinesischen Festlands

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [18. Juni 2019 um 18:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeouts-within-mainland-china/120723 "2019-06-18T18:20:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [18. Juni 2019 um 18:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeouts-within-mainland-china/120723/2 "2019-06-18T18:30:46Z")

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We see [frequent complains](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=china) about this, both for self-hosted and sites we host.

This is almost definitely the work of China’s Great Firewall:

> **[Great Firewall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall)**
>
> The Great Firewall (GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic. The Great Firewall operates by checking transmission control protocol (TCP) packets for keywords or sensitive w Besid...

I (speaking personally) would suggest that your users use a VPN to bypass the firewall.

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