- Release Notes
- Tutorial
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Management Description
- Domain Management
- Configuration Management
- Permission Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Purge and Prefetch
- Log Management
- Service Query
- Diagnosis Tools
- Value-added Services
- Best Practice
- API Documentation
- FAQ
- Service Level Agreement
- Glossary
- Release Notes
- Tutorial
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Management Description
- Domain Management
- Configuration Management
- Permission Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Purge and Prefetch
- Log Management
- Service Query
- Diagnosis Tools
- Value-added Services
- Best Practice
- API Documentation
- FAQ
- Service Level Agreement
- Glossary
This document helps you get started with Tencent Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN).
1. Basic CDN Knowledge
- How does CDN work?
- Why Tencent Cloud CDN?
- What are the use cases of CDN?
- What are the use limits of CDN?
2. CDN Billing Modes
Tencent Cloud CDN has two billing modes: bill-by-bandwidth and bill-by-traffic. You need to understand the two CDN billing modes so that you can choose the right mode for you. For more information, please see Billing Instruction.
3. Getting Started
3.1. Activate the service and select the billing mode
Before using CDN, you need to sign up for a Tencent Cloud account and activate the CDN service. For more information, please see Overview.
3.2. Connect a domain name
You need to add an accelerated domain name for your acceleration service. Through an accelerated domain name, CDN caches resources on an origin server into a CDN cache node closest to the client to accelerate resource access. For more information, please see Adding Domain Names.
3.3. Configure a CNAME record
When the distribution is created, CDN will assign you a corresponding CNAME address, which needs to be configured before taking effect. For detailed directions, please see CNAME Configuration.
You can also follow the best practices below to get started with CDN and accelerate your domain name:
4. Console
Below is the overview page of the CDN Console:
5. Overview of Console Features
| Desired Operation | Reference Document |
|---|---|
| View, activate, or disable a connected acceleration domain name. | Domain Name Operations |
| Filter and view Tencent Cloud resources or manage them by tag, project, etc. | Domain Name Search |
| Optimize your CDN acceleration effect. CDN supports various custom configurations. | Configuration Overview |
| View mappings between Console features and `Action` values. | Console Permissions |
| Grant permissions at the domain name level through custom policy statements. | Policy Creation |
| Grant different project-level permissions. | Project-Level Permissions |
| Use real-time monitoring data to analyze the running status. | Real-Time Monitoring |
| Analyze your user sources, distribution, and usage. | Data Analysis |
| Purge resources cached in CDN nodes on a regular basis so that the nodes will pull the latest versions of resources from the origin server and cache them again. | Cache Purge |
| Load specified resources onto a cache node in advance. | Cache Prefetch |
| Download access logs and analyze popular resources and active users as needed. | Log Download |
| Quickly search for and analyze your log data. | Real-Time Log |
| View the real-time status overview and the details of the entire network. | Entire Network Status Monitoring |
| View multi-dimensional reports that show and help you analyze your business status. | Operational Report |
| View traffic package usage in mainland China on the CDN Console. | Traffic Package Management |
| Verify whether a specified IP is of a CDN node. | Verify Tencent IP |
| Diagnose a URL with an access exception and quickly locate the problem. | Self-Diagnosis Tool |
| Monitor and protect your resources from DDoS, CC, and WAF attacks. | Secure Acceleration |
| Use CDN to deliver a massive number of images. | Image Optimization |
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