Tutorial on using DNSPOD and Tencent Cloud CDN to speed up website access

As foreign VPS become cheaper and cheaper, many webmasters have moved their websites to regions outside the mainland for cost-effective purposes, such as using VPS from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. However, considering that the website is mainly for domestic visitors, we need to improve the speed of access, so today Weiaisi Blog will talk about how to use it DNSPOD and Tencent Cloud CDN Speed up website access Tutorials for.

The prerequisite for using the above functions is that your domain name must first complete the B (backup) A (case), otherwise no CDN in China will accept your domain name. Fortunately, the speed of BA is also very fast now. It can be operated for 21 working days (long time but no loss). If you find a proxy (short time, pay, but may lose), it can be done in less than a week. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

First, it involves modifying the domain name NS server. For example, you are a domain name registered in China's Wanwang. get into Alibaba Cloud After the HiChina domain name management interface, find the domain name you want to set, and click Management to enter the "Domain Name Console". Click "Modify DNS" behind the DNS server.

The interface for entering DNS server address pops up. I have modified it in advance. You need to enter the two NS server addresses of DNSPOD, and then click OK.

The system prompts that the modification will be completed within 48 hours. In fact, it can be completed within 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, we go to DNSPOD to add this domain name. Log in to the DNSPOD background, enter "Domain Name Resolution" to add a domain name, and then the system will automatically detect whether the NS address has pointed to DNSPOD.

Now add the A record of @ and www domain names, and the record value points to your server IP address.

If you plan to use the "explicit URL" function of DNSPOD to make 301 redirects and point the @ domain name to the www domain name to achieve domain name unification, please refer to The Method of DNS POD Realizing Domain Name 301 Redirection This article can also be referred to if you encounter the problem of slow opening or unable to open Supplement and improvement of 301 domain name redirection setting method and Solution for failing to jump to the www domain name after the DNSPOD main domain name is set with an explicit URL , I hope it can help you.

As we all know, Tencent Cloud has made seamless function switching between DNSPOD and itself, so when you finish DNSPOD work, you can directly switch to Tencent Cloud Console according to the following prompts.

If there is no Tencent cloud account, you can click Get Tencent Cloud novice user gift package and register an account Then, add the domain name you want to do CDN acceleration in the domain name management. Refer to specific setting method The Method of DNS POD Realizing Domain Name 301 Redirection Let's do the inside operations. There is no more wordiness here.

It is worth mentioning that there is a traffic package management function in the advanced tool of Tencent Cloud CDN settings. By default, Tencent Cloud CDN will give 10G of traffic per month, which is sufficient for general websites. If not, you can Click me to buy Lao Wei bought a 100G traffic package. The price is less than 30 yuan and the validity period is 6 months. According to the current usage of CDN traffic, it is enough.

Tencent Cloud CDN There are also cache refresh, statistical analysis, log management and diagnostic tools in the management background, which are quite practical functions. You can go in and have a look and simply operate them. In a word, from the actual use of Weiaisi blog, there are several relatively large broadband businesses in China alone, such as China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile and China Railcom, as well as more small broadband businesses, such as Education Network, Great Wall and Dr. Peng. No matter whether your website is located at home or abroad, facing the complex network situation in China, If CDN acceleration is not used, it is really difficult to meet the fast access of different broadband from different regions. In addition to Tencent Cloud CDN acceleration in China, Baidu Cloud Acceleration and many other businesses that provide CDN acceleration function will make their own choices according to their personal conditions. In the future, they will also write tutorials on other CDN operations for everyone to refer to.