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Some countries and companies are increasingly blocking Hong Kong internet. Let's host a mirror in the US:
That should be enough to keep the basic things running. People could use VPNs or personal internet connections to access the other services for now (and we should probably explain that in a FAQ).
For the MX it would be better to just proxy the TCP connection, instead of forwarding email, so that the hosting provider does not get access to the cleartext emails when the sender uses SMTPS/STARTTLS (which is pretty much the norm now). Latency will be higher but it doesn't matter, unlike for the website.
What is the real evidence of these blockages?
Plenty e.g. interaction with customers on Gmail or Signal. Try loading https://www.acquisition.gov/ for something you can easily reproduce. Or https://ngi.eu
I think either will do the work:
In both cases, we'll need to filter out either Chinese/USA traffic, so that we do not publish VPN instructions in restrictive regions, which can result in respective lawful bans.
I don't understand your obsession with reverse proxy. Just host a copy of the website as I suggested, and host a copy of the RFQ hook locally which uses whatever local email infrastructure is there. Why is it so hard?
This is a mirror website and has nothing to do with VPN and I don't see why you're suggesting doing any sort of regional blocking.
The RFQ hook could just as well connect to the same mail.m-labs.hk since it would not be filtered from the VPS. So nothing even has to change.