November 22nd, 2023 shadmin
We are happy to announce that our suspension of bank transfers in China has come to an end and we are again able to offer bank transfer as payment option for our mainland China customers. Clients in mainland China will be able to pay in Chinese Yuans (RMB) to our corporate account in Shanghai (with CITIC Bank) and also request an official tax invoice (Fapiao) for that payment.
Please note that for all payments of less than RMB1,000, we will be charging a RMB20 additional fee to cover for the delivery of the Fapiao to by Shunfeng Express to your address in China.
The fapiao request has also been simplified and can be done directly by opening a ticket to our billing department. We are working on launching a form for Fapiao requests in the near future.
The Management
SinoHosting.net
Posted in Company News, Service Update | Comments Off on Bank transfers now available in mainland China
September 21st, 2019 shadmin
In response to the increasing delays of our existing ICP license application process, and the growing backlog of existing applicants, we have been working on finding new ways to speed up this process and have our clients website obtain this license in a shorter period. We are happy to announce today the launch of a streamlined application process in partnership with a new datacenter provider in Shanghai, through which licenses can be approved in as few as 10-15 days after receipt of valid documents.
Going forward, ICP license application would follow the process below:
1) Clients receive the link to download the ICP license application package once they place the order through our website.
2) Read the procedures and prepare all required documents.
3) After filling the forms, they will send the scanned files back to our ICP department for confirmation.
4) Within 24h we will confirm whether everything is done properly, after which the original documents can be sent to the provided address.
The contact person, who must be a Chinese national, will need to come to our datacenter provider address to take a photo as per the requirements. Other alternatives are explained in the ICP application package.
Unfortunately, in order to move forward with the new system, we will not be able to process any outstanding application. Please resubmit a new application if you have not yet obtained an ICP license so that we can start to work on it immediately.
Existing clients who have further questions are welcome to open a ticket to our ICP department through our portal.
The Management
SinoHosting.net
Posted in China Hosting, Service Update | Comments Off on New ICP License Application Process
November 22nd, 2016 shadmin
Some new changes have been introduced by the relevant authorities in regard to the ICP license application and requirements. More specifically:
1) During the application, the website must be offline (403 or 404 status)
2) Previously, it was possible to run the website on a Hong Kong or oversea server while the license was being processed. That is not allowed any more.
3) Successful applicants must display and maintain their ICP license in the footer of their website homepage with a link to the relevant government website. This was always the rule but enforcement was lax. Now it is a hard requirement and not doing so can result in the cancellation of the ICP license.
4) It is not allowed to park or forward domains without ICP license towards websites that have valid ICP licenses. To do so, the parked or forwarded domain must also have an ICP license.
You can learn more about these new rules and more details about the ICP license application procedure and requirements at www.sinohosting.net/icp.php
Posted in China Hosting | Comments Off on Changes to the ICP license procedures – November 2016
August 7th, 2015 shadmin
We have relaunched our affiliate program after upgrading the existing system. Sign ups were suspended for months but now again available.
SinoHosting affiliate program allows you to earn commission income when you refer clients to us. We pay a flat $10 per each successful client referred by affiliates. The system is fully automated and you can check from your affiliate account all traffic and orders that have been sent to our website through your affiliate link.
You can get started now by signing up at affiliates.sinohosting.net. Sign ups are usually approved within two business days and the minimum payout amount is USD100.
Affiliates payments can be done by bank transfer or Paypal. If you have any questions, please email to affiliates@sinohosting.net , or if you are an existing client, you can submit a ticke to our Affiliates & Partners department from your billing account.
The SinoHosting Team
Posted in Partners | Comments Off on SinoHosting Affiliate Program relaunched
August 14th, 2014 shadmin
This is a complete misconception about the ICP license.
First, the ICP license applies only to websites that are hosted on a mainland China server. Foreign hosted websites cannot apply for an ICP license.
Second, only foreign hosted websites are blocked by the great firewall. The great firewall applies only to international connections from/to China and as such has no effect on locally hosted websites. If your site is hosted within China and happens to break the law, the government will instruct the datacenter to take down your website (or the whole server), there is no need for them to block the site. The whole point of the great firewall is to prevent access to websites hosted on servers on which the Chinese government has no control (servers physically located overseas).
Posted in China Hosting | Comments Off on Does the ICP license guarantee your site not to be blocked in China?
November 11th, 2013 shadmin
In order to improve the hosting experience of our customers, all hosting accounts on the server aberdeen.sinohosting.net have been migrated to a new machine. The new server is a huge upgrade of the existing server which was getting slow recently. It boosts 1TB of data storage space, 16GB RAM, a dual E3 CPU and a better backup system. Clients on this server should notice an improvement in the loading speed of their websites immediately.
There is no change to the hostname (aberdeen.sinohosting.net) nor nameservers (ns13/ns14) so most clients should not face any downtime and should be loading on the new server by now. Clients not using our nameservers will need to point their records to the new IP. Such clients are required to open a support ticket with us to obtain the IP information.
The old server will remain up until we manually verify that all sites are loading correctly from the new server.
The Management
SinoHosting.net
Posted in Web Hosting | Comments Off on Migration of server aberdeen to new upgraded machine
November 14th, 2012 shadmin
We are happy to announce a major upgrade to our Linux shared hosting package, in China as well as in Hong Kong/overseas. Most packages see an increase of over 100% in terms of resources while the prices stay essentially the same. There is a slight increase in our China hosting packages, although resources are now aligned with our international hosting packages.
Existing clients will benefit of the upgraded packages but will continue to renew at their older prices. All new orders however will be charged at the new prices.
The most important changes:
1) Disk space and bandwidth limits are increased
2) Prices stay the same for basic and business plans, the corporate plan increases to RMB2,500/year
3) There is an increase on all China-hosted plans respectively to 750, 1,500 and 3,000/year
4) Now China-hosted plans have the same disk space and bandwidth limits as the HK/international hosting plans (prices are higher though).
5) Now there is no option to purchase add-on domains. The corporate plan comes can support 10 domains, other plans support 1 domain only. If a client has a different domain he will need to purchase a second hosting package (or upgrade to the corporate plan).
We are also happy to introduce new international hosting locations, which are Miami in the USA and Netherlands in Europe.
Should you have any questions, please contact our sales department at sales @ sinohosting.net
The Management
www.sinohosting.net
Posted in Service Update | Comments Off on Upgrades to our Linux web hosting packages
January 16th, 2012 shadmin
We are currently able to assist in the registration of .cn domain names without an ICP license. The domain can be used with our international hosting packages (US, UK, Singapore or Hong Kong). The .cn is still however still restricted to Chinese companies. The application takes seven days and the following documents must be provided (scans of the originals):
-Enterprise license code certificate (mainland China-registered company)
-ID card (must be Chinese national)
Should you have any question on this, please contact our sales department at sales at sinohosting.net
The Management
www.sinohosting.net
Posted in Domain Names | Comments Off on Dot cn domain registration now possible without an ICP license
June 30th, 2011 shadmin
In the recent weeks, the local offices of the ministry of industry and information technology, in charge of ICP licenses, have been auditing websites with ICP licenses and delisting those with invalid certificates (business license, ID card etc.) or inaccurate contents (site content not matching the original declaration on the ICP application). Sites which have been moved to a provider different of the one through which the ICP license was originally applied for are also being delisted.
After de-listing it means the site does not have an ICP license and is not legally authorized to be hosted on a mainland China server.
In case you receive a SMS or email from the ministry of industry and information technology in regard of your ICP license being delisted, please contact us directly. For clients who had the license through a third party but are now hosted with us, they will need to apply for a new license (www.sinohosting.net/icp.php). We will waive 50% of the usual RMB800 one-time application fee. In the meanwhile, your site will be migrated to our Hong Kong server and hosted there until a new ICP license is obtained.
Clients can also choose to move permanently to Hong Kong if they decide not to start the ICP license, this way there is no additional fees if the site will be moved to an equivalent package on the Hong Kong server (for instance from basic-china to basic-hong kong)
Posted in China Hosting | Comments Off on Verification and delisting of ICP licenses
March 25th, 2011 shadmin
We are now accepting Alipay as payment gateway for our hosting services. To pay through Alipay, please select “Bank Transfer/Alipay” when placing the order and send the payment directly to our Alipay email account as per the invoice.
The Management
www.sinohosting.net
Posted in Service Update | Comments Off on Alipay now accepted at SinoHosting
