Create a New Site
Your e-mail address must be verified to create a site.
System Overview
(image) diagram user -> edge cache -> tier-1 cache -> origin service
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On the sidebar, click the site selector dropdown and select "Create your first site" or "New site" (image) start-dropdown-first.png (image) start-dropdown.png
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Enter the site name and select default preferences.
DNS Hosting If you are planning to use Skip2 for DNS hosting, enter your second-level domain (e.g. skip2.net, without any subdomain)
Wildcard Domains Skip2 Networks supports wildcard domains. This feature leverages on-demand TLS to serve requests for any subdomain of your site. Learn more about wildcards here (opens in a new tab).
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Apply Recommended Acceleration Defaults This applys reasonable defaults to make your site faster without being intrusive. Specifically, this enables:
- Multi-tier caching
- ZSTD, Gzip, and Brotli compression
- Sets a default cache TTL of 5 minutes for filetypes JS, CSS, PNG, JPG, SVG, GIF, BMP if they don't have a
cache-controlheader already.
Apply Recommended Security Defaults This applys additional security defaults to make your site more secure without being intrustive. Specifically, this enables:
- OWASP Core Rule Set blocking. Learn more (opens in a new tab)
- Blocks known-bad bots, scrapers, and crawlers
Enable DNS Control This enables the DNS interface and creates a DNS zone for the new site. Use this if you are planning to use Skip2 to host your DNS, which is optional.
Domain is not allowed due to security restrictions This error occurs when the domain being added is perceived as being high-traffic or related to industries requiring strict auditing and compliance. Contact support for options.
Site already exists on our system This error occurs when the domain being added is already owned by another account. Contact support to verify ownership.
Site requires verification This error occurs when the domain being added requires ownership verification before we can enable it. Contact support to verify ownership.
- Add your origin The next step is to Create a New Origin (opens in a new tab) so that we know what to do with requests we get for your site that we don't have in our cache.