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GUIDE

Serve Your Web Server and a Melbicom S3 Bucket from One CDN Hostname

Keep the application on your web server and the uploads in a Melbicom S3 bucket, both behind one CDN hostname: an upstream per origin,…

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TUTORIAL

Create Melbicom S3 Access Keys with Limited Permissions

Give each application its own key pair instead of your service password: create an access key in the console, restrict it to one bucket…

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TUTORIAL

Enable Versioning on a Melbicom S3 Bucket

Turn on versioning so every overwrite and delete keeps the previous copy: the bucket Summary, the Versioning dialog, and how to see earlier versions…

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TUTORIAL

Serve a Melbicom S3 Bucket through Your CDN

Point a CDN resource at one of your S3 buckets in three clicks: choose the S3 bucket origin type, pick the bucket, save. The…

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GUIDE

Encrypt Your Backups Before They Reach Melbicom S3 with rclone

Keep data unreadable to anyone but you: rclone's crypt remote encrypts file contents and names on your machine, then stores the ciphertext on your…

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TUTORIAL

Connect External S3 Storage to Your CDN

Use a bucket you already have as a CDN origin: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or any S3-compatible endpoint, with a read-only key created…

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TUTORIAL

Ignore the Query String in Your CDN Cache Key

Make the CDN cache by path only, so /style.css?v=1 and /style.css?v=2 share one cached copy: where the Ignore query setting lives, how to enable…

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REFERENCE

Understanding Your Melbicom S3 Object Storage Service

Everything the Melbicom S3 service page tells you, in one place: the endpoint and username your tools connect with, the web console, how usage…

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TUTORIAL

Create a Bucket on Melbicom S3 Storage

Create your first bucket in the web console: the naming rule every bucket must follow, the features to decide at creation, and what the…

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TUTORIAL

Create a Melbicom S3 Bucket with Object Lock

Make objects immutable for a retention period: create the bucket with Object Locking on (the only moment it can be enabled), then set a…

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TUTORIAL

Install and Configure the MinIO Client for Melbicom S3

Manage your Melbicom S3 storage from a terminal: install the mc command, register your service as an alias, and run the commands you will…

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TUTORIAL

Create Your Melbicom API Token

Generate a private access token from the client area: pick an expiry, copy the value shown once, and verify it with your first authenticated…

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TUTORIAL

Secure and Manage Your Melbicom API Token

Restrict your API token to known IP addresses, review what it can call, and deactivate or rotate it: the full management surface of the…

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REFERENCE

Melbicom API: Authentication and Endpoints

The Melbicom API in one page: the base URL, bearer-token authentication, and every endpoint for products, services, CDN cache purge, domain pricing and billing.

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GUIDE

Monitor Invoices and Credit Balance with the Melbicom API

A twenty-line script and a cron entry that watch your account: it checks for unpaid invoices and a low credit balance every morning and…

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GUIDE

Purge Your CDN Cache from Your Deploy Pipeline

Make cache purging a release step: call the Melbicom API from your CI pipeline after each deploy, purge only the paths that changed, and…

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REFERENCE

Dedicated Server Networking: LACP Bonding and Link Redundancy

Bonded uplinks to paired switches, configured automatically when the OS is installed: how the redundant path behind your dedicated server works, what the ext…

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FAQ

Fetch Content from Your Origin with a Different Host Header

Your origin selects content by the Host header of each request. When it expects a different hostname than your CDN resource serves, one proxy_set_header…

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REFERENCE

CDN Custom Headers: Types, Limits and Common Uses

Custom header types, limits and common uses in one place: the two header types (request to origin, response to visitor), the per-location limits, and…

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REFERENCE

How CDN Billing Works: Traffic Allowances and Prepaid Pockets

CDN usage is metered and settled at month-end. This guide explains which money your CDN spends first, then sets up a Prepaid Pocket: funds…

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TUTORIAL

Point Your Domain at the CDN

Your CDN resource only serves traffic once your hostname points at it. Copy the CNAME target from the resource settings, add one record at…

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TUTORIAL

Add SSL Certificates to Your CDN

Pick the certificate that protects your CDN hostname: a free Let's Encrypt certificate, the self-signed fallback, or your own certificate uploaded on the SSL…

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TUTORIAL

Add Multiple Origins and Failover to Your CDN

One origin server is a single point of failure. The upstream editor on the Origins tab pools several origin servers behind one resource, with…

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TUTORIAL

Route and Configure a Specific URL Path on Your CDN

Locations are the CDN's path-based routing rules: one prefix, one rule. Add a location for a path like /images/, point it at an upstream,…

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