EXISTING HETZNER / AWS US ACCESS COMPARISON
2026-09-05 11:35 UTC. Reviewed two-vantage single-pass observations, not China-wide access claims.

Ten fixed read-only public URL requests were run from each existing machine using the portable022 probe. No new infrastructure was purchased or provisioned. Script copied over existing authorized SSH; no credentials exported. Region labels describe the existing machines from the handoff, not a newly measured egress-IP geolocation.

Both machines returned the same HTTP status and heuristic classification for all ten endpoints. Manual content review refines several200 results below.

Endpoint | Hetzner | existing AWS US | reviewed interpretation
baidu | 200 | 200 | 200 HTML contained query-relevant link-testing result titles on both; usable for this query at this time.
bing-cn | 200 | 200 | 200 but result headings were irrelevant: Microsoft/account pages locally, DuckDuckGo discussions on AWS. Do not count as successful relevant search.
sogou | 200 | 200 | Redirected to antispider challenge; unavailable.
so | 302 | 302 | 302 error response; redirect handling/access unresolved, no successful results.
gitee-gists | 401 | 401 | 401 with application message login invalid/no permission; geography did not remove authentication requirement.
huiji-root | 403 | 403 | 403 Just a moment challenge.
huiji-mc-api | 403 | 403 | 403 Just a moment challenge; no revision data.
bwiki-root | 200 | 200 | 200 actual BWiki landing page headings; public landing access.
bwiki-api | 200 | 200 | 200 parsed MediaWiki recentchanges array, five records on both. This small API sample is usable.
moegirl | 200 | 200 | 200 JavaScript-required shell, not article content; suspected challenge markup. No JS/challenge bypass attempted.

Infrastructure consequence: useful BWiki and Baidu access exists now without a new worker. A different US cloud address did not resolve the tested blocks. Hong Kong or Singapore remains an untested routing/IP-reputation comparison, not a guaranteed cure. Authentication limitations remain separate from location. Use the022 portable kit for any later regional comparison before scaling traffic. Reports002/022 contain provider options; this report does not refresh prices or purchase anything.

MoeGirl correction:002 described an earlier homepage as usable; this fresh probe retrieved only a JavaScript-required shell from both machines. Access can vary over time and by client; this is not a claim the site is universally unreachable. Search/website HTTP200 alone is insufficient, as the Bing and MoeGirl examples show.

Limits: one fixed query (链接测试), ten URLs, one short time window, two datacenter machines, no browser rendering, no login. The observations do not establish mainland reachability or overall engine quality. Raw bodies and request metadata/hashes remain private; safe reviewed summaries only are published. Requests were sequential per machine with same-host spacing, no retries and a2MB retained-body cap. Both probe processes completed all10 requests.

Exact public target URLs:
baidu: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E9%93%BE%E6%8E%A5%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95
bing-cn: https://cn.bing.com/search?q=%E9%93%BE%E6%8E%A5%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95
sogou: https://www.sogou.com/web?query=%E9%93%BE%E6%8E%A5%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95
so: https://www.so.com/s?q=%E9%93%BE%E6%8E%A5%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95
gitee-gists: https://gitee.com/api/v5/gists?page=1&per_page=10
huiji-root: https://www.huijiwiki.com/
huiji-mc-api: https://minecraft.huijiwiki.com/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rclimit=5&format=json
bwiki-root: https://wiki.biligame.com/
bwiki-api: https://wiki.biligame.com/ys/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rclimit=5&format=json
moegirl: https://zh.moegirl.org.cn/

Artifacts: china-probe-local-20260905-1136/probes.json and *.body; china-probe-us-20260905-1136/probes.json and *.body. Script vantage-probe/probe.py.