Resource Management - Anycast CDN [EN]
You can manage all Anycast CDN resources in a single section of the user panel.
Add a new resource
If you want to add one or more domains to the CDN, create a new Anycast CDN resource. To do this, click the Create new button in the upper left corner of the CDN DASHBOARD section:
or click the Create new CDN resource button in the lower right corner of the CDN RESOURCES section as shown below:
In the Create new CDN resource: Name and settings window that emerges, enter the Resource name of your choice and Resource origin in the corresponding fields. The directory name mustn’t contain spaces. Once completed, click Continue to proceed with creating your new resource.
Resource Origin
The Origin (or the Source Server) — Your physical or virtual HTTP(S)-accessible server hosting the source directory with files you intend to distribute via the CDN, primarily designed to handle incoming requests. For example, the origin may host your website’s source code or content folders. Anycast CDN uses the source server to cache the original files and proxy requests for non-cached files.
If you don’t have a strong reason to use a third-party cloud storage, we strongly recommend using our native Cloud Storage as your cloud origin.
Cloud Storage
You can also create a bucket in our Cloud Storage and use it as a source bucket. To do this, in the Resource origin section, click on the Cloud Storage tab and click Create new bucket. In the modal window that appears, as shown below, specify the name of your new bucket and your preferred protocol.
The name of your new bucket can be between 3 and 63 characters, consisting of lowercase letters, numbers, periods, and hyphens only.
To continue, click the Create new Bucket button.
External Storage
Keep in mind: We provide a native cloud storage solution that works seamlessly with Anycast CDN and Video CDN. This is the simplest, fastest, and most reliable option, fully optimized and supported out of the box.
Our Anycast CDN allows you to use private object storage buckets as an origin. This means your content can remain securely stored in a private bucket while still being delivered globally through the CDN.
In addition to native storage, we support external S3-compatible object storage providers. External private buckets cannot be connected to the CDN directly.
To solve this, we automatically deploy a secure gateway service between the CDN and your storage - a highly reliable and low-maintenance approach.
Supported providers in the first release:
Amazon S3
Wasabi
Backblaze B2
DigitalOcean Spaces
Object Storage (S3-compatible)
MinIO
Upcoming support:
Azure Blob Storage (next iteration)
Adding External Storage
External Storage can be added from within the resource page in Anycast CDN section or from the dedicated External Storage section in your main navigation panel. To add your External Storage from the External Storage section, navigate there. If no External Storages were added previously, you’ll immediately start with the external storage creation page.
Enter new External Storage details
Alias (Storage name)
Region
Access key ID
Secret access key
Bucket name
Testing Access
In case you have any issues at this stage, verify credentials and/or permissions and seek resolution with your External Storage provider.
Click Test Access to verify the credentials you entered
The system checks connectivity and permissions
Storage cannot be added on the next step, unless the test is passed
This ensures only working configurations are stored.
Access is automatically retested every time you save changes. Non-working credentials are never accepted.
In case External storages are already existent in your account, when accessing the External Storage section, you’ll be presented with the External Storage list view, to add another External storage in this case, use the dedicated button in the lower right corner, as depicted below.
To add External storage from within your existing Anycast CDN Resource, navigate to the Preferences tab, and click Create new storage as shown below.
Enter new External Storage details
Alias (Storage name)
Region
Access key ID
Secret access key
Bucket name
As shown in the illustration to the right.
Click Cancel to abort the operation. Remember to first test connection and afterwards press the button to add and save the External storage.
Testing Access
In case you have any issues at this stage, verify credentials and/or permissions and seek resolution with your External Storage provider.
Click Test Access to verify the credentials you entered
The system checks connectivity and permissions
Storage cannot be added on the next step unless the test is passed.
This ensures only working configurations are stored.
Access is automatically re-tested every time you save changes. Non-working credentials are never accepted.
External Origin URL
As the Resource origin, on the External URL tab, you can specify the IP address or URL of the external storage, cloud or physical, hosted by you or third-party hosting, where the files you plan to distribute from anycast CDN are stored, as shown in the image above.
Resource list view
To view data about all your Anycast CDN resources, go to the Anycast CDN resources page on the top navigation bar of the section. In a separate row for each resource, the following information is available in the form of a table:
ID — internal resource identifier
Resource name — resource name
User domains — domains you have created manually to access the resource files
Resource origin — folder for storing the resource files
State — current status of each resource
Last modified — the date when the resource was last updated
This table displays data on CDN resources that have already been created. If you have not added any resources yet, on the CDN resources tab you can create your first CDN resource.
Edit your resource
To change the resource name, go to the CDN resources section. The table view contains all of your CDN resources.
Hover your cursor over the Resource row; an edit icon will appear next to the Resource name:
Click the edit icon, and change the name of the Anycast CDN resource in the field that opens.
Name editing is also available on the resource page. To do this, at the top of the resource page, click on the resource name and change it.
Resource deletion
To delete a Video CDN resource, go to the CDN resources page of the Anycast CDN section. In the table where all resources are listed, hover over the row of the desired resource. The delete icon will appear on the right side of the row:
Confirm the deletion by clicking the Delete button in the dialog box or click Cancel to abort the deletion.
It is also possible to delete a resource on the resource page. To do this, at the top of the page, point and click on the resource’s name and perform the desired action.
You can delete several Anycast CDN resources at once. To do this, select the desired resources using the checkboxes on the left side of the table of your resources, as shown in the figure below.
Other actions
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