How We Extended CloudFlare's Performance and Security Into Mainland China

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This post details the technical, economic, and regulatory challenges of extending Cloudflare's services into mainland China. It describes the partnership with Baidu to overcome these challenges, including the establishment of 17 data centers and the development of a process for ICP license applications. It also highlights the performance benefits achieved, such as a 200ms reduction in request serving time and nearly doubled website availability for sites served on the China network.