Using CDN Pro to accelerate and distribute your content involves the following steps:
- Log in to the portal.
- Create a property, which is the configuration to be deployed to the proxy server(s).
- Edit the property if necessary.
- Validate the property.
- Optionally deploy the property to staging servers and make sure the cache behaves as expected.
- Deploy the property to production servers and make sure the cache behaves as expected. If you began your free trial of CDN Pro, you must submit at least 5 requests to content deployed to the staging environment before you can deploy to production.
- Create an edge hostname for the service hostname(s) in the property.
- Modify your DNS to add a CNAME record to point your service hostname(s) to the edge hostname.
The following figure shows the steps to follow when using CDN Pro to accelerate your content.
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To help you get started, check out the Getting Started with CDN Pro Video.