Enabling or disabling origin shielding
Origin shielding is a Cloud CDN feature that helps reduce the load on content origins from CDN servers.
If shielding is enabled for a resource, CDN servers request files from an intermediate shielding server rather than from an origin directly. This server deduplicates the requests received: a file requested more than once is downloaded from an origin once and cached.
The shielding servers are located in different geographical locations:
| Provider | Location ID | Location name |
|---|---|---|
| Yandex Cloud CDN | 1 | Russia / Moscow / msk |
Warning
Origin shielding is a paid feature. You will be charged for a full month on the day you enable origin shielding. Thereafter, you will be charged on the first day of every next month.
To enable or disable origin shielding:
- In the management console, select the folder where your resource is located.
- Navigate to Cloud CDN.
- Click the resource name.
- Navigate to the Origin shielding tab.
- To activate origin shielding, in the top-right corner, click Activate.
- In the Shielding settings window, select the required location in the Location field.
- Click Activate.
Once enabled, the shielding status will change from Not activated to Active.
Tip
Similarly, you can disable origin shielding. To do this, on the Origin shielding tab, click Deactivate in the top-right corner of the resource page.
Once disabled, the shielding status will change from Active to Not activated.
It may take up to 15 minutes for the new settings of the existing resource to apply to the CDN servers. After that, we recommend purging the resource cache.