With the biggest population and the growing economy, China is considered the biggest markets in the world (if not ye, it will be). Everyone would like to take a share in the market, but there are so many things in china are different with international standards, hosting business is one of the things.
In China, many hosting companies are not running with the same operating system with their oversea competitors. Basically, the problems are
1. Technical support, most supports are at very low level and only few of the companies provide 24X7 service.
2. payment methods, credit card payments are usually not supported. Instead, direct deposit or alipay (a Chinese online payment transaction company) are widely used.
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If you are going to build a website in china ( host inside china mainland network ), two kind of licences you may need to apply before you start to run your site.
1- for non-profit from internet website, such as personal blog, company site, forum etc, you need to apply (or called check in with Gov monitor ) a licence to make sure your website under all Gov law. All in one word, no sensitive political topic, no horn things!!
2- for those websites which want to make money via internet, such as selling shared hosting, running IDC, providing information based on a member fee, you have to get permission first. There are many conditions, you need lots of money ( 1 million RMB ), employees, office, and have to prove you know how to operate online business ( lots of document work ).
China want more controls of internet, but it looks a impossible … So get a local guys for more information if you want to host in china, that will be easy.