Simple tutorial explaining how to setup CDN?

[SJ77]

I have limited disk space on my server and would like to host files on a CDN. Either my own NAS or Amazon or whatever.

How can I run IPS from my server and host all the attachments/uploads from CDN?

Thank you

[SJ77]

what be this?

 

[Rhett]

A CDN is not for moving storage to another provider, in this case  you would select the option of either FTP or AWS S3 for your storage options. The S3 is the most common and would work fine for this use, as it moves all items you select to use AWS S3 bucket for your storage and does not store them locally.  A CDN is a content delivery network, in which it syncs to your local files to many servers around the world, to better cache and distribute your files for you.  Moving storage to an offsite only solution is done with FTP or AWS S3. 

You can see our guides section on setting this up as well 

 

 

 

[SJ77]

Thank you!  @Rhett

I have a qnap NAS ; is there an ftp tutorial as well?

[Rhett]

A NAS isn't going to work most likely, not unless it has a public path and is available directly, or if this is available on your server internally you could symlink that /uploads folder to the NAS as long as it's on a high speed connection to your main server. 

[SJ77]

6 hours ago, Rhett said:

A NAS isn't going to work most likely, not unless it has a public path and is available directly, or if this is available on your server internally you could symlink that /uploads folder to the NAS as long as it's on a high speed connection to your main server. 

Okay, I have my attachments moving to Amazon S3. It says a move is currently in progress.

• Once I have the files on the Amazon S3. Is it possible to move them back?
• How do I make a personal back up of files on Amazon S3?

[Rhett]

You can copy/download them from the S3 to back them up if needed, on moving them back, you can, if you do, you need to ensure they are finished moving to the S3 first. 

[SJ77]

14 minutes ago, Rhett said:

You can copy/download them from the S3 to back them up if needed, on moving them back, you can, if you do, you need to ensure they are finished moving to the S3 first. 

this is pretty great.

I noticed they are duplicating instead of moving.  Once a folder is on S3 shouldn't it no longer be on my web server wasting space?

Just now, superj707 said:

this is pretty great.

I noticed they are duplicating instead of moving.  Once a folder is on S3 shouldn't it no longer be on my web server wasting space?

never mind. I see a second task setup in queue to delete after everything is moved.