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How to Make Sanity CMS Work in China?

What is Sanity CMS?

Sanity is one of many headless CMS (content management systems) for structured content. Headless CMS helps content editors, marketers, and developers work together to deliver a better content experience to their users.

 

Does Sanity CMS work in China?

 

The short answer is No.

 

Why? Sanity is built and hosted on top of the Google Cloud Platform which is blocked completely in China.

Here is the long answer:

We reached out to the Sanity team to see if their service works in China, and here is what we got:

Sanity's response to their service working in China

 

So simply put, if the Sanity team doesn't have experience with China, you are unlikely to get good support from them. If you are just testing Sanity out, and don't need your site to be highly available in China. It doesn't hurt to try.

Since the Sanity CMS is based on GCP (Google Cloud Platform), if GCP has good support in China, we probably can still use it in production, but what we found was this:

 

" Google does not offer and has not offered cloud platform services inside China and Google Cloud is not weighing options to offer the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in China." – Google's Media Statement

 

So this looks like Sanity CMS doesn't work in China by "words" and it is also not in the coverage area of the Sanity and GCP. The next thing we want to know is: if a website is published with Sanity CMS, whether the site can be loaded in China or not. More specifically, how fast the site loads in China. Here are the speed test results:
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