Taiwan WordPress hosting for a language the default search cannot match.
Traditional Chinese has no spaces between words, so WordPress's built-in search - which splits on whitespace - treats an entire sentence as one term and returns nothing.
What a Traditional Chinese site needs that an English one does not.
Most of the difficulty is not translation. It is that the assumptions behind search, fonts and text handling were written for space-separated languages.
Search that segments Chinese text
WordPress splits queries on whitespace. In Traditional Chinese there is none, so a three-word question becomes a single term that matches nothing at all.
Fonts that do not block the first paint
A Traditional Chinese webfont is megabytes before subsetting - an order of magnitude beyond a Latin face. Unsubsetted, it is the single slowest asset on the page.
Routing that accounts for the strait
International routes from Taiwan vary considerably by destination. Serving from a nearby edge removes the part of the latency that has nothing to do with your site.
Full-width and half-width treated as equal
Numbers and Latin letters appear in both widths, and visitors type either. Matching them as the same character is the difference between a search result and an empty page.
Dates and holidays that read correctly
Minguo-era dates still appear on official and financial sites, and the lunar calendar drives the traffic peaks. Neither is a formatting default anywhere.
A site that reads as local.
The tell for a foreign-hosted Taiwanese site is rarely the writing. It is a search box that never finds anything and a font that arrives after the text.
- Search index segmented for Traditional Chinese
- Fonts subset to the characters actually used
- One-click admin login
- Restore any daily backup from the dashboard
The first paint on a Chinese-language page.
The text is ready long before the font that renders it, which is why an unsubsetted CJK face dominates every other cost on the page.
What we change for a Taiwanese site
These differ from a standard WordPress site on the same plan, and each follows from Traditional Chinese rather than from geography alone.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Search indexing | Word segmentation for Chinese instead of whitespace splitting | Traditional Chinese is written without spaces, so WordPress's default tokeniser treats a whole query as one term and returns nothing for a perfectly reasonable search. |
| Webfont delivery | Subset to the glyphs the site actually uses, served from the edge | A complete Traditional Chinese face runs to several megabytes, which makes it the dominant cost of a page rather than a rounding error as a Latin font would be. |
| Character width normalisation | Full-width and half-width forms folded together when matching | Numbers and Latin letters exist in both widths and visitors type whichever their input method produces, so treating them as distinct silently halves every search result. |
| Origin placement | Nearest available region with edge caching in front | International routing out of Taiwan varies enough by destination that origin distance shows up in real page timings rather than only in synthetic tests. |
| Date handling | Minguo-era and lunar calendar formats available alongside Gregorian | Official and financial content in Taiwan still uses the Minguo era, and the traffic calendar follows lunar holidays that no default locale accounts for. |
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
- 1 WordPress site
- 10 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Support tickets
- 5 WordPress sites
- 50 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Priority support tickets
- 20 WordPress sites
- 200 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Dedicated support
Questions, answered.
Why does search return nothing on my Chinese site?
Do you have a data centre in Taiwan?
Why is my Chinese site slower than the English version?
Do you handle Simplified and Traditional together?
Will full-width numbers break my search?
Host a Taiwanese site that behaves like one.
Free migration, search that matches Chinese text, and fonts that arrive before the reader gives up.