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CDN

Troubleshooting

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  • Troubleshooting HTTP 5xx errors
  • Troubleshooting 3xx codes (redirect) 
  • Troubleshooting Low Cache hit ratio  
  • Troubleshooting. What to do if CDN does not work
  • Troubleshooting 4xx errors 
  • Troubleshooting content delivery speed. What to do, If you experience issues with site performance
  • Web crawlers. How to block web crawlers 

Getting Started

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  • Create and integrate CDN resource for only static files
  • Create and integrate a CDN resource for entire site
  • Whitelist the CDN servers, if there is access control list (ACL) on the origin
  • Create an account. Create a CDN account for an individual or legal entity
  • HTTP/2 support. Configure HTTP/2 on the origin server
  • Сontent geo-delivery. Geo Balancer

Payment and tariffs

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  • CDN billing. Find out how and when services are billed, change your billing plan

General CDN resource options

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  • Add a SSL certificate to transfer content over HTTPS
  • Automatic and manual CDN resource suspension
  • Create a domain name for content delivery through a CDN
  • Origin shielding. Enable and configure Origin shielding (paid option)
  • Origin. Origin SSL Validation
  • Origin. Specify origin and origin pull protocol
  • SSL certificate. Fix problem with attaching/issuing certificate

Main Menu Sections

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  • Origins group: Add content origin
  • Purge. Purge some or all files from the CDN resource cache
  • Raw Logs (paid feature). Export logs to your storage
  • CDN resources. Search, filter and delete
  • Configuration. Purge CDN cache by URL
  • Log Viewer (free feature). View and download logs of CDN resources
  • Prefetch. Upload the content to CDN before users request it
  • Reports. Check CDN resource reports Learn how statistics are collected
  • Roadmap. Open list of features we are developing now or are going to develop in near future

Rules

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  • Rules. What are they? Create a rule manually or from a template
  • Templates. Create your own template or use a system one

Cache section options

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  • Always Online: serve stale cached content in case of origin unavailability
  • Browser Caching: specify the required cache lifetime for users’ browsers
  • Configure and check CDN caching settings
  • Configuration. Set up the CDN to follow origin redirects
  • Query-String. Ignore Query-String when caching content on CDN servers
  • Set-Cookie. Ignore Set-Cookie when caching content on CDN servers

HTTP-Headers Section Options

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  • Enable CORS header support
  • Host header. Change the Host header
  • Request Headers: specify HTTP headers that CDN servers will add to requests to the origin server
  • Hide response headers. Specify HTTP headers that CDN includes in response
  • Response headers. Add custom HTTP headers
  • X-Forwarded-Proto Header. Identify the protocol that a user use to connect to a server

Content section options

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  • Configure Rewrite to change and redirect the requests
  • Configure compression on CDN (GZip, Brotli)
  • Enable large files delivery optimization
  • Compression. Fetch compressed Configure compression on the origin
  • Status Code. Define an HTTP status code for content hosted on the CDN
  • WebSockets. Allow WebSockets connections to an origin server

Web Protection section options

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  • Enable basic web protection (Basic WAF)

Access section options

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  • Referer Access Policy: control access to content for specified domain names
  • Set the hostname passed in SNI requests to the origin server
  • What is Secure Token? How does it work? About the feature
  • Configuration. Set values in the User Agents Policy
  • Country Access Policy. Control access to content for specified countries
  • HTTP methods. Specify Allowed HTTP Content Access Methods
  • IP Access Policy. Control access to content for specified IP ranges
  • Redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Set up a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
  • Secure Token. Configure and use
  • User Agents Policy. Control access to content for specified user agents

Network Limits section options

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  • Download speed limit: control the download speed for end users

Optimization section options

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  • Compression. Convert images to WebP and AVIF
  • Image Stack. Optimize images when delivering over the CDN
  • Quality. Change image quality
  • Crop. Crop images
  • Resize. Reduce image size

Streaming with CDN

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  • Configure streaming via CDN (only for paid subscription plans)

CMS Integration

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  • Integration with ClouldFlare
  • CMS. Integration with AWS S3
  • CMS. Integration with B2evolution
  • CMS. Integration with Concrete5
  • CMS. Integration with Craft
  • CMS. Integration with Cs-cart
  • CMS. Integration with Django CMS
  • CMS. Integration with Drupal
  • CMS. Integration with Google Cloud Storage
  • CMS. Integration with IPB
  • CMS. Integration with IPS
  • CMS. Integration with Joomla
  • CMS. Integration with Kirby
  • CMS. Integration with Magento
  • CMS. Integration with Perch
  • CMS. Integration with PrestaShop
  • CMS. Integration with PyroCMS
  • CMS. Integration with SocialEngine
  • CMS. Integration with Typo3
  • CMS. Integration with Webasyst
  • CMS. Integration with WordPress (Gcore plugin)
  • CMS. Integration with Wordpress (Rocket plugin)
  • CMS. Integration with Wordpress (W3 Total Cache plugin)
  • CMS. Integration with Wordpress (WP SuperCache plugin)
  • CMS. Integration with X-Cart
  • CMS. Integration with XenForo
  • CMS. Integration with vBulletin

Terraform, Graphana

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  • Manage CDN via Terraform 
  • Reports. Check CDN statistics in Grafana using the cdn-stats plugin from Gcore

Status Page

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  • Status page: be aware of the service status, planned and emergency maintenance

Knowledge Base

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Server Protection

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