Documentation Updates for the Period Ending May 21, 2016

New Docs

The following documents are new to the help desk support series as part of our regular documentation update efforts:

  • Authenticating URL purge requests via API
  • Purging API cache with surrogate keys
  • Penetration testing your service behind Fastly

New Service Guide Category: Online video streaming

We've added a new Online Video Streaming category to our documentation that contains a new On-the-Fly Packaging subcategory with the following new guides:

  • Adaptive bitrate playback URL guidelines
  • Collecting OTFP metrics

Recently Edited & Reviewed Docs

The following documents were edited by request, as part of the normal doc review cycle, or as a result of updates to how the Fastly app operates:

  • About Fastly's On-the-Fly Packaging service
  • About our terms
  • Accounts and pricing plans
  • Checking multiple backends for a single request
  • Domain names and Fastly's services
  • How we calculate your bill
  • Improving caching performance with large files
  • Paying your bill
  • Shielding
  • Single purges
  • Using Fastly with apex domains

We've substantially revised our service guides describing Fastly's security and compliance programs to provide greater detail about how we keep Fastly, our network, and our customers' content, secure.

Along with these service guide changes, we updated our Terms of Service. The updated Terms of Service go into effect for all new customers signing up for Fastly Services on or after May 20, 2016. You can view prior versions of our Terms of Service in our archive.

At the same time, Fastly posted an updated Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The updated AUP goes into effect on June 19, 2016. You can view prior versions of our Acceptable Use Policy in our AUP archive.

Finally, we updated our Privacy Policy. The updated Privacy Policy goes into effect on May 20, 2016. You can view prior versions of the Privacy Policy in our privacy archive.


Our documentation archive contains PDF snapshots of docs.fastly.com site content as of the above date. Previous updates can be found in the archive as well.