CDN
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Understanding the Building Blocks of Your CDN Product
Every building block of your CDN product, defined in one place: resources, origins, upstreams, locations, cache, SSL, protocols and zones, with the screen where…
GUIDECDN Quick Start: From Zero to Serving Traffic in 5 Minutes
Create a CDN resource, add one CNAME record, let the free certificate issue, and verify traffic serves from the edge: five minutes of hands-on…
TUTORIALAdd Your First CDN Resource
Create your first CDN resource in one short wizard: hostname, protocol, SSL certificate and origin, then see exactly what to do after creation.
TUTORIALPoint 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…
TUTORIALAdd 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…
GUIDEChoosing a Protocol for Your CDN: HTTP, HTTPS, Both, or HTTP to HTTPS
HTTP, HTTPS, Both or HTTP→HTTPS: four buttons, one decision. Here is which protocol to set on a CDN resource, when each exception applies, and…
TUTORIALSet Your CDN Source Server (Origin)
The Source Server (Origin) field tells the CDN where to fetch anything it has not cached: a scheme, a host and a port. This…
TUTORIALAdd 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…
TUTORIALServe 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…
TUTORIALConnect 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…
GUIDEServe 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,…
TUTORIALRoute 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,…
GUIDEControl How Your CDN Caches Content
Cache Valid lets you list the HTTP status codes the CDN may cache and give each one a fixed duration. Set the resource-wide rules,…
TUTORIALIgnore 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…
TUTORIALEnable Gzip and Brotli Compression on Your CDN
Gzip and Brotli live in the Cache & Compression section of the advanced settings, each with its own toggle, compression level and Save button.…
TUTORIALEnable Origin Shield Protection on Your CDN
Origin Shield routes cache misses through a shared edge node so fewer requests reach your origin. It is one toggle in the Connection area…
GUIDEHow to Minimize Downtime When Your Website Is Down
Your origin will fail someday. Cache Use Stale keeps the CDN answering with the cached copies it already holds when the origin is unreachable…
TUTORIALPurge a URL or Your Entire CDN Cache
Clear one file, a whole folder, or every cached object on a hostname: from the Clear cache dialog in the panel, or with one…
GUIDEPurge 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…
TUTORIALProtect Content with Secure Links
Secure Link makes a location require a signed token in every URL: visitors without a valid token get a 403. Enable it, take the…
TUTORIALRestrict Access to Your CDN by IP, User Agent or Country
The Access Control and Rate Limiting sections of the advanced settings hold four independent editors: ACL IP, ACL User Agent, ACL GEO and Rate…
GUIDERestrict Content Delivery by Location
A geo allow-list keeps a CDN resource serving only the countries you are licensed for: pick Allow only listed in the ACL GEO editor,…
GUIDEHow to Block LLMs from Crawling Your Website
AI crawlers announce themselves in the User-Agent header, and the CDN's ACL User Agent editor turns them away by name: one keyword per line,…
TUTORIALManage Response Headers and CORS on Your CDN
Custom headers live on locations: each path-based routing rule can carry up to 20 of them. The Add a header dialog takes a type…
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