Questions tagged [cdn]
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network.
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Can you restrict a CDN to a list of domains/URLs?
I would like to serve a JS file by CDN, but I want to be able to control the sites/pages that are allowed to use it. (Using the CDN. I know people can still just copy the file if they wanted to.)
Is ...
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Cloudflare firewall rule blocks bot traffic only partially
We’ve got some trouble with bot traffic (likely scraping) on a website that’s hosted on a fairly small server. The bot requests
a large set of changing pages
in irregular intervals
in the order of ~...
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Adding GoDaddy Domain name in Azure CDN endpoint
I am trying to map my custom domain purchased from GoDaddy to Azure CDN endpoint. I tried documentation steps from here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-map-content-to-custom-domain
But ...
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Cloudflare plus Nginx plus Tomcat - is Nginx redundant?
With my past project, I have Nginx serving static files as well as being a reverse proxy for Tomcat (backend written in Java). There was no Cloudflare or other CDN.
With my current project, I have ...
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Combine Amazon Cloudfront with Cloudflare?
Has anyone tried to combine Amazon Cloudfront with Cloudflare, as below:
In Cloudflare, add example.com to Cloudflare and update the DNS to proxy the website.
In Amazon, add a Cloudfront distribution ...
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CDN or Cloudflare for a site with over 1.2TB of images a month [duplicate]
We have a travel marketplace site where we have over 70GB of images that are then served each month over 1.2TB.
We currently use Cloudflare, and they can cache about 30% of the requests.
We use next....
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For a website behind a CDN, does it make sense to combine JavaScript into one file and host it on my server?
Currently, my website loads JavaScript libraries from several CDN providers (cloudflare, unpckg, etc.) and it is working through a CDN (cloudflare).
Does it make sense to combine all third-party ...
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Will website with frequently updated server-generated content benefit from CDN?
My website has some static (JavaScript, images) content as well as server-generated content which is updated several times a day. Will it benefit from CDN?
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Azure CDN from Verizon Premium HTTP to HTTPS redirect
I have created an Azure CDN endpoint (like example.azureedge.net) using Verizon Premium Pricing Tier.
I want to create a rule to redirect to the HTTPS protocol (like https://example.azureedge.net) ...
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If I disable indexing from the CDN server robots.txt file will this create an SEO issue?
I have 1 own website and 1 CDN server. I have CSS, JS and images on my CDN server. All the CSS, JS and images on my own website come from the CDN server.
If I block my CDN server with a robots.txt ...
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Could a specific website be blocked or throttled for all users by Verizon
UPDATE:
The issue was in fact a Verizon "routing" issue. I reached out to Verizon and was given the go around, so I contacted my host who did some testing. We used Nord VPN to mask the ...
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Cloudflare Pending validation error due to VirusTotal
My domain (quảcầu.cc/xn--qucu-hr5aza.cc) couldn't receive certification due to an error:
When I checked with VirusTotal, only one security vendor flagged this URL as malicious. The rest flagged it ...
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Should I use DNS prefetch and preconnect when loading resources from CDN?
In my web page I load around 12 resources from jsdelivr (CSS and JS).
Should I optimize it with one (or both) of following techniques? If yes, should I put the tags right before loading tags or at the ...
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Cloudflare free version asked to update name server again after 1 month for one of the domains [closed]
I have moved one of my website to use Free cloudflare CDN so i changed my Name servers on my registrar to point to cloudflare Name server
When setting up i was asked to change name server to
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Website performance gone down after cloudflare cdn activated
I wanted to checkout Cloudflare CDN free version for old website and activate CDN for it and noticed that website performance was hit after activating CDN. What could be reason as I am new to ...
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Effect of a CDN on latency of an overseas web server
I'm trying to understand the effect a CDN can have on latency. I tried pinging three different web servers, two of which are based in France. Here are the results I got at the time of the test:
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Is cloudlayar a legit protection service?
I recently came across a very cheap protection service similar to Cloudflare called Cloudlayar:
https://cloudlayar.com/
It's a bit weird because the prices are too good to be true, no PayPal (so ...
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Cache-Control for ads.txt, robots.txt and sitemap.xml files that are generated dynamically
I have some "static files" that I build on the fly, because they are generated dynamically.
ads.txt
robots.txt
sitemap.xml
What is the ideal Cache-Control for those files? PS: My server is ...
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How to ensure image search optimization when hosting on a content delivery network?
To improve my websites' user experience, I want to optimize site speed, as well as search engine ranking.
Google stated that Improving web speed can benefit ranking in search engine results, but apart ...
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Is there a risk to hosting service if hot-potato site is using cloudflare?
Picture a politically hot website that might be subject to a DDOS attack. If that site is hosted at examplehosting.com and then uses cloudflare or another CDN, is the hosting service vulnerable to a ...
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Disable hotlinking or saving or your images online?
I have some JavaScript and CSS to block right clicks and stuff and everything is on cloudflare CDN which tells me when I get hotlinked.
Is there a way to stop this?
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Can WordPress plugins W3 Cache, Autoptimize, Stackpath CDN, and Shortpixel be used together? [closed]
I'm trying to combine some WordPress plugins to speed up my websites. Can I use
W3 Cache
Autoptimize
a CDN with Stackpath,
Shortpixel Image Optimization
together at the same time? Are there any ...
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Why does Cloudflare seem to be caching 522 responses for resources?
I have a number of different websites hosted in cpanel and proxied through Cloudflare. The symptoms I'm getting are as follows:
One of my hosted customers will contact me to say something isn't ...
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Is there any way to find main domain with addon domain?
I want to rent a host that support 8 addon domains.
I will use the Cloudflare CDN for my domains.
Please tell me is that possible for others (people or robots) to identify my other websites?
Thanks
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How does Cloudflare do HTTPS for my site when I haven't provided them with an ssl certificate?
I setup cloudflare today. It only asked me to add its nameservers to my domain. After doing that I'm able to access my site at my domain name but it's now cloudflare's IP. This is all good and as ...
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Why do CDNs use push for larger files?
As I learn about Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), every source I read online says that pull zones are used more frequently, while push zones are used for larger files or files that don't change often....
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Has jsdelivr stopped to provide js-lib concat service?
I used jsdelivr for a long time.
It has a very strong feature:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/jquery@3.2.1,jquery.ui@1.11.4
However, recently it looks like they've stopped updating this. For instance, ...
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Migration from Jetpack Image CDN to Cloudflare
Like most of the Wordpress site owners, I have been using Jetpack's Image CDN for delivering images across the world on my site. Lately, I came across this article stating that there is no harm in ...
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Geo specific content and CDN caching [closed]
Our Wordpress website has a list of products which is generated on the server side. Depending on user ip (country) the list gets populated with different items. Some products are meant to be displayed ...
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Increase of Googlebot response time after CDN implementation
Problem: We have a site hosted in Germany that is suffixed with ".de". Recently, we implemented a CDN with Cloudflare. Shortly after our Googlebot response times increased from 60-100ms to 400-500ms. ...
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CDN cached PHP page vs HTML one - Loading speed
Is there any difference at all in terms of loading speed if we have a fully cached PHP generated site (by for example, using CloudFlare rules "Cache everything") and a HTML page?
Cloudflare allows ...
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Can you Bring Your Own IP to Akamai?
Most clouds allow one to bring ones own IP networks. Is this also possible with Akamai or is one stuck with their networks?
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Googlebot-Image incorrectly crossing domain URLs
My website (www.example.com) has all of my images hosted via CDN under a different sub-domain (cdn.example.com).
We've noticed an odd behavior recently, that seems as though Googlebot-Image/1.0 is ...
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Why don't CDNs reveal an IP to be used as an ANAME (alias)?
I've read through the docs on AWS CloudFront and CloudFlare CDN, and both of them appear to require either ownership (to be the registrar) of a domain, or at least to have their DNS pointed to as the ...
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When you use a cdn to deliver images how does google index it?
I have started using a CDN on my website, the image links are as follows:
"https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_lossy,ret_img/https://my-domain-name.example/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/logo-1.png
In ...
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Is CDN bad for image SEO?
I found a blog post on Shopify about image optimization with the following statement:
By placing your images on a CDN, you are most likely removing the image from your domain and placing it on the ...
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What to do when changing or moving off of a CDN to redirect images?
I am moving a site off of a CDN where all the images are cached and served:
https://some-cdn.example/my-image.jpg
The image will now live here:
https://myurl.example/my-image.jpg
Many of these ...
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IllegalLocationConstraintException on CloudFront (with S3)
I have created an S3 and I uploaded files on the bucket successfully. Now, I am trying to make it work with CloudFront however it is giving me
IllegalLocationConstraintException
The ap-east-1 ...
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How do I register a custom domain in Azure when I cannot add the Azure Web App hostname as a CNAME to our domain?
Let's assume we're running a website on greatwebsite.com. This is a multilingual website, and we're using /en, /de, /fr as path prefixes to handle languages (and not via top level domains).
We're ...
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When using an image server on a separate domain, should we link directly to the image URL and restrict crawling, or redirect through our domain?
I have a large number of images stored on a separate server, these URLs currently go through a 302 redirect. I think these additional pages are a total waste of time for Google to crawl.
At the ...
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How can CloudFlare help me? [duplicate]
CloudFlare help needed
Recently I was looking for a free CDN service. I was looking for free subscription. Someone suggested me cloudflare for this. I registered here but it seems to be complex for ...
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Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine as a CDN
Can the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine be used as a content-distribution network (CDN)?
Aside from the moral problem of stealing bandwidth from an organization I love, would serving a unique file ...
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ERROR: The request could not be satisfied - Amazon CloudFront CDN
Amazon's Cloudfront CDN requires correct connection to your origin in order to work properly without any 502 bad gateway error.
I did setup everything alright.
For example: Cloudfront URL: https://...
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Why pay for a distributed DNS service when ISPs cache lookups?
Suppose I've purchased example.com from my neighbor's startup domain name company, superlowcostdomainnames.com (aka SlowDNS).
At first DNS is a bit of a performance drag, because SlowDNSs servers are ...
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Disable caching for subdomain on Cloudflare?
How can I disable caching for a subdomain on Cloudflare but keep SSL?
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Will CDN affect my SEO?
I'm planning to use a CDN for hosting all my website files. This is because it makes the site load faster. My boss asked me a question before implementing this. Will this affect the SEO in any way. My ...
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Will introducing a CDN for images on a subdomain dilute our PageRank or hurt our rankings?
Background:
We run a product aggregator site. We list 20k products which will grow to 200k within the next year and also have a section of the site where users can take those product images and ...
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Google intermittently fails to download CSS and JS from CloudFront CDN
We noticed a lot of "Mobile Usability" errors in the Search Console. When I clicked on them and chose "Check live version" option - it always said the page was mobile friendly. However, the mobile ...
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Increase in self-referrals in Google Analytics since implementation of CDN
Since the implementation of a CDN, my self-referrals have gone from being non-existent to thousands per day, the referral report in analytics with full referrer as a secondary dimension show that the ...
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Duplicating CDN content under different domains
I have the english version of my site under mysamplewebsite.com, I serve all of the image content from cdn.mysamplewebsite.com. I also have the localized versions of the .com site under top level ...
