北山在前面的文章中介绍过，北山买了一个iPage的主机，但是悲催的是，这个iPage主机的IP被封了。而更悲惨的是，iPage不给换换服务器，这个其实是很早就已经成定局了，只是一直没有抽时间整理出来。

下面把iPage技术支持的回复给贴出来，看看iPage不给换服务器是个怎样的说法：

第一次问iPage能不能换个服务器，iPage给的回复是：

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Support.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Recently we have had a lot of members from Asia having issues connecting to their site and accessing their emails. We believe that the problem can be found within the main internet servers over in Asia. If you go to http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm you will see a report of the internet backbone in Asia.

The main thing you should look at is the ‘Packet Loss’ column. If there is even a small percentage of package loss on a server that could possibly be in between they and our servers, which are located in Massachusetts, USA. This will cause for the page not to load fully, thus causing a timeout error or while receiving emails.

You can also run a ‘tracert’. What this will do is show you the path you are taking to get to our servers. The way to do this is, go to the ‘Start’ menu, ‘Run’, the type ‘cmd’ or ‘command’. This will open up a DOS window. In the window you are required to type the following: tracert laoweibiz.ipage.com, after you do this. You should contact your Internet Service Provider if there is a time out or delayed request.

Unfortunately, I fear that your issues are related with well publicized issues of blocking by ‘The Great Firewall of China’.

I wish that I could tell you that we have a solution for you, but unfortunately, as I understand it, this isn’t an issue with iPage, but rather the Chinese system over there.

Also, it is not possible to move your hosting account to another server.

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.

Sincerely,

Marshall Mendez
Customer Support

因为老外的废话比较多，拷贝/写了那么长一大片，重点的用红色标出来。说的是，GFW的问题，不是iPage的问题，iPage也无能为力，不能换服务器。

再跟iPage墨迹一把，说我的主机才刚刚买问能不能换个服务器或者换个IP地址什么的，iPage给的回复：

Hello,

Thank you for your patience. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. The IP range which we provide on our shared hosting starts with 66.96.147. It appears that China blocked our IP range 66.96.147. However, it is not possible to assign separate IP address for your account.

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.

Sincerely,

Vincent Baker
Technical Specialist

Technical Specialist！技术专家都出来了，说iPage的虚拟主机的IP地址都是以66.96.147.开头的，而66.96.147.这个IP段的都被GFW封了，杯具～。

虽然对这个“iPage的虚拟主机的IP地址都是以66.96.147.开头的”说法持怀疑态度，但是也没办法。于是再继续墨迹一下，问问iPage能不能购买独立IP，iPage给的回复是：

Hello,

Thank you for contacting support.

Although we don’t sell dedicated IP’s for accounts there is a work-around that will allow you to get one. When you purchase a dedicated SSL certificate this has to be installed to a specific domain/IP, so purchasing a dedicated SSL for the site would give you an IP that will remain the same.

http://www.ipage.com/product/ssl_certificate.bml

Another option would be a VPS account as these will come with one dedicated IP. We don’t yet offer VPS accounts at ipage but can recommend http://vpslink.com as an un-managed VPS host (note: as their VPS accounts are self-managed it’s recommended to be familiar with administrating a linux server through command line or to have a webmaster to mange the server for you).

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, if you have any further questions feel free to reply to this ticket or contact phone support anytime.

Matt F.
Tier 2 Support

Tier 2 Support！不知道这个是不是技术专家。简直是坑爹啊，为了买个独立IP，让我买SSL证书，虽然兲朝的网络环境是这样，但是我也没必要死认你iPage这个坑。