trojan VS proposal

A fellow Aussie currently in China, a Trojan [0] server has been working fine for the last week I've been here. I've got it hosted through a VPS (smaller provider) in LA. While it's a bit of a pain to setup, reliability has been rock solid and definitely useable - my laptop is connected 24/7 and I can access the unfiltered web, including video, just fine. V2ray also supposedly works quite well, but I haven't looked into it.

[0] https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan

Normal VPNs that you can see ads all over the place like N*rdVPN won't work, period. The correct way is to rent a few servers from different providers, make sure their ips are not blocked, and build your own V2Ray or Trojan service first. The Chinese gov will not be able to distinguish your Trojan traffic from ordinary https traffic, so the only thing that's sus to them would be the fact that all your traffic goes to one foreign ip, but I've been doing it for a few years without officials knocking on my door so yeah I think it will work for you as well. I don't take responsibility tho, do your research.

(TrojanGFW)[https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan] and (V2Ray)[https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core]. But you need your own server to do it, and some few tweaks. For first-timer it might be quite confusing to configure, but you will understand how it works in the long run. You could also tunnel your connection to your server which then forward it to protonvpn (which what I'm doing rn).

v2ray or Trojan

Not convinced that this a better solution then just implementing most of these features as part of the protocol. Most languages already support grpc load balancing.

https://github.com/grpc/proposal/blob/master/A27-xds-global-...

The future of gRPC load balancing is proxy less using the xDS APIs of Envoy. More info here. But as of now, there is no straightforward solution since there are no xDS management servers supporting this unless you are on GKE where you can use Traffic Director. Istio has experimental support, and it is said that it works, but it might require some manual configuration. If Go is fine for you, you could also be using go-control-plane, but definitely, the ecosystem around gRPC and xDS does not seem to be mature enough.