Getting started

These articles provide basic instructions for getting started with Fastly services.


Concepts

Concepts are a collection of guides that introduce you to core ideas essential to understanding content delivery networks (CDNs) and Fastly.

Content types delivered by Fastly The underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web to define how content is formatted and transmitted is…

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Our points of presence (POPs) on the internet are strategically placed at the center of the highest density Internet Exchange Points around…

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Domains

These articles provide basic, essential information and instructions for bringing your domains to Fastly.

A domain (sometimes called a domain name) is a unique, human-readable address, typically typed in a web browser, that ensures requests for…

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After you create a domain and activate your service configuration, we recommend testing that domain with either the web interface or…

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Once you're ready to route traffic to a Fastly service using your domain name, you must associate the domain with your Fastly service…

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This guide describes how to take the public name for your website or application and add it to Fastly where you can associate it with a…

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Hosts

These articles provide basic, essential information and instructions for connecting hosts, also referred to as a backends or origins, to Fastly.

As a content delivery network, Fastly works by having any one of our global points of presence (POP) respond to requests that would…

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Health checks monitor the status of your hosts. Fastly performs health checks on your origin server based on the Check frequency setting you…

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A host , also referred to as a backend or origin , is a web server or cloud service that contains the content of your website or…

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Services

These articles provide basic, essential information and instructions for working with services.

A Fastly service is a user-defined set of caching rules and behaviors for a website or application. You might create new Fastly services to…

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Once you create a CDN service , you can edit and activate new versions of your Fastly services that include refinements and updates to…

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You can create a Compute service and connect it to a Compute project directly from the web interface. Once you create your service, you…

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Web interface

These articles describe key features of the Fastly web interface controls.

Home
 

These articles provide basic information about the Home page of the Fastly web interface.

CDN
 

These articles provide basic information about the CDN controls of the Fastly web interface.

Compute
 

These articles provide basic information about the Compute controls of the Fastly web interface.

Security
 

These articles provide basic information about the Security controls in the Fastly web interface.

Resources
 

These articles provide basic information about the Resources controls in the Fastly web interface.

Can't find exactly what you're looking for using the navigation controls? The universal search controls allow you to search globally across…

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The user quick links menu provide you with direct links to account, billing, and contact information you're likely to want access to most…

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Fastly provides web interface access to all of its features and functions, which are also accessible using Fastly's application programming…

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