My blog now uses two domains: weiyii.cn for Chinese, ay3s.com for the other languages.

The Chinese site stays on Alibaba Cloud OSS and ESA. The international site runs on Cloudflare Pages. Both use the same content source, and the language switcher takes readers to the corresponding article.

I wanted three things: manageable maintenance, a sensible setup for readers in China and abroad, and working links for articles already shared.

Why two domains?

Previously, all six languages lived on weiyii.cn. Chinese used the root; English, Japanese and other translations had directories such as /en/ and /ja/. One domain and one deployment kept things straightforward.

Once I had ay3s.com, I decided to give the translations their own site. The Chinese site already worked on Alibaba Cloud, so there was no need to move everything.…