Basics

These articles provide basic information and instructions for configuring Fastly services after getting started.

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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The Fastly web interface allows you to use a web browser to log in from anywhere. If you have trouble logging in, refer to our guide on…

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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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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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To route traffic to a Fastly service using your domain name, you must associate the domain with your Fastly service and update your…

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Domains are used to route requests to your service. You associate your domain names with your origin when provisioning a Fastly service so…

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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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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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