E2E CloudE2E CDN keeps copies of your site’s files, such as images, scripts, style sheets, and videos, at edge locations around the world, and serves each visitor from one near them. It fetches a file from your origin only when the edge has no fresh copy. Your origin is where the original files live: your own web server, or a bucket in E2E Object Storage.
You find CDN in MyAccount under Network. Its list page is Manage CDN Services.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”- Request CDN for your account, once.
- Create a distribution for your own server, and choose a CDN plan the first time.
- Serve a bucket through the CDN with Add to CDN.
- Change distribution settings: the basic settings, the origin, and how files are cached.
- Clear the cache so visitors get a file you changed.
- View bandwidth usage and monitoring for one distribution or all of them.
- Change your CDN plan.
- Disable or delete a distribution, and enable it again.
Turn CDN on for your account
Section titled “Turn CDN on for your account”Your account asks E2E to turn CDN on before it creates its first distribution. Manage CDN Services shows Request CDN in place of Create CDN until E2E approves the request. You send the request once, with a short reason, and it covers every project in the account. See Request CDN.
Distributions and origins
Section titled “Distributions and origins”A distribution is what you create to serve files through the CDN. Each distribution has one
origin and one set of cache settings, and its own address, the Distribution URL. The
Distribution URL is made from the first part of your origin’s domain name and 10 random letters and
digits. For the origin static.example.com, it starts with static. A file at
/images/logo.png on your origin is then served at https://<distribution-url>/images/logo.png,
where <distribution-url> is the distribution’s Distribution URL.
You can create a distribution in two ways:
- From Manage CDN Services, with Create CDN, for an origin you name yourself, such as your
web server at
static.example.com. See Create a distribution. - From a bucket in Object Storage, with Add to CDN, which fills in the bucket as the origin. See Serve a bucket through the CDN.
State and status
Section titled “State and status”Each distribution shows a State and a Status, and they answer different questions:
- State is InProgress while a change is deploying to the edge locations, and Deployed once it is done.
- Status is Enabled when the distribution serves requests, and Disabled when it does not.
A new distribution shows InProgress and Disabled while it deploys, then Deployed and Enabled. Creating, editing, enabling, and disabling each take up to 30 minutes to deploy, and Deployed can show up to 15 minutes after the change is live.
The list and the details
Section titled “The list and the details”Manage CDN Services lists your distributions. Search CDN finds one by its origin domain name or its Distribution URL, and you can tag a distribution from its row and filter the list by tag. Click a distribution to open its details: Basic Details, Origin Detail, Cache Behaviour, Invalidations, Bandwidth Usage, and Monitoring. Basic Details shows the Distribution ID, which names the distribution in the API.
Where to start
Section titled “Where to start”To serve your first files through the CDN, follow Get started with CDN. For fixes, see Troubleshooting CDN; for short answers, see CDN FAQ, including how CDN is billed.