{"id":32047,"date":"2018-11-03T19:39:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=32047"},"modified":"2018-11-03T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T14:09:38","slug":"cnames-and-cdns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/cnames-and-cdns\/","title":{"rendered":"CNAMEs and CDNs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>CNAMEs and CDNs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Content Delivery Network<\/strong> is a fantastic way to get elements of your site to your global customers in a timely manner. As part of the set up process, you may need to add a <strong>Canonical Name<\/strong> (CNAME) record to your <strong>domain\u2019s DNS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we manage your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/tutorials\/apache\/iis-web-server-vs-apache-tomcat-server\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nameservers<\/a>, or if your DNS is hosted on our nameservers, our Heroic Support technicians will take care of this step. If not, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/step-by-step-tutorials\/jquery\/jquery-cdn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDN<\/a> set up process you will need to add the following line to your domain\u2019s zone file:<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-apacheconf code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-apacheconf code-embed-code\">cdn.domain.com. 300 IN CNAME sourcecdn.edgesuite.net.<\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<p>Substitute your domain for <strong>\u201cdomain.com\u201d<\/strong> within the higher than example. Additionally make certain you follow the other necessary steps your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-clear-dns-cache-on-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS<\/a> provider may need for updates to your zone file.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"why-do-i-need-a-cname-for-my-cdn\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Why Do I Need a CNAME For My CDN?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The CNAME entry points any references to <strong>cdn.domain.com<\/strong> in your site code to the <strong>Content Delivery Network<\/strong>. for many content management system CDN plugins, merely putting the<strong> cdn.domain.com<\/strong> in the plugin configuration will enable site assets to be downloaded from locations across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNAMEs and CDNs Content Delivery Network is a fantastic way to get elements of your site to your global customers in a timely manner. As part of the set up process, you may need to add a Canonical Name (CNAME) record to your domain\u2019s DNS. If we manage your nameservers, or if your DNS is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85693,84874],"tags":[86245,86246,86247,86248,86249,86250,86251,86252,86253,86254,86255,86256,86257,86258,86259,86260,86261],"class_list":["post-32047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dns","category-hosting","tag-cdn-cname-mapping","tag-cdn-http-cname","tag-cname-dns","tag-cname-for-website","tag-cname-host","tag-cname-lookup","tag-cname-prefix","tag-cname-redirect","tag-cname-subdomain","tag-dns-check-keycdn","tag-dns-cname","tag-dns-url-record","tag-how-does-cname-resolution-work","tag-how-does-cname-work","tag-how-to-create-cname-record-in-dns","tag-keycdn-cname","tag-keycdn-dns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}