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Wildcard Sites
Skip2 Networks supports wildcard DNS and wildcard Sites on our platform. This is convenient when you need to handle unknown customer subdomains without pre-provisioning each hostname, and it also fits well into development pipelines where ephemeral preview or branch environments are created dynamically.
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On the sidebar, click the site selector dropdown and select “Create your first site” or “New site”
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Enter the site name and starting with an asterisk
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DNS Hosting If you are planning to use Skip2 for DNS hosting, enter your second-level domain (e.g. skip2.net, without any subdomain) first, and then add a second Site with your wildcard name.
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 moreÂ
- Blocks known-bad bots, scrapers, and crawlers
Enable DNS Control You cannot enable DNS controls for wildcard Sites. If you want to manage DNS with Skip2, you must enter the root domain first and create it as a Site. After this is added, you can add another Site with your wildcard name. Contact support if you need help.
Domain is not allowed due to security restrictions This error occurs when the domain being added is perceived as being too 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 so that we know what to do with requests we get for your site that we don’t have in our cache.