STON Edge Server Complete Guide

Author:WineSOFT Inc. Version:2.4.1, Nov 24, 2016

0. Overview

• Chapter 1. STON Edge Server

1. Basics

• Chapter 2. Getting Started
  • Setting Up the Server
  • Setting Up the OS
  • Installation
  • Obtaining a License
  • Update
  • Run
  • Hello World
  • Origin Server
  • API Call
  • Hardware Status
  • Restart/Quit
  • Caching Reset
• Chapter 3. Configuration
  • Reload Settings
  • Global Settings (server.xml)
  • Virtual Host Settings (vhosts.xml)
  • Checking the Virtual Host List
  • Confirm Configuration
  • Configuration History
  • Restore Configuration
  • Configuration Download
  • Configuration Upload

2. HTTP Caching

• Chapter 4. Caching Policy
  • Time To Live (TTL)
  • Update Policy
  • Accept-Encoding Header
  • Case Sensitivity
  • QueryString Differentiation
  • Vary Header
  • POST Request Caching
• Chapter 5. Content Purge
  • Purge
  • Expire
  • ExpireAfter
  • HardPurge
  • Default Purge Behavior
  • HTTP Method
  • POST Standard
• Chapter 6. Handling HTTP Requests
  • Session Management
  • Client Cache-Control
  • Response Headers
  • Client Request/Response Header Modification
  • URL Preprocessing
  • Compression
• Chapter 7. Origin Server
  • Error Detection and Recovery
  • Health-Checker
  • Origin Address Use Policy
  • Origin Status Monitoring
  • Origin Status Reset
  • Overload Detection
  • Origin Selection
  • Session Recycle
  • Range Request
  • Initializing the Entire Range
  • Keeping Client Requests
  • Origin Request Default Header
  • Origin Request Header Modification
  • Redirect Tracking
• Chapter 8. Bypass (Pass-through)
  • No-Cache Request Bypass
  • GET/POST Bypass
  • Fixed Origin Servers
  • Fixed Origin Sessions
  • Bypass Header
  • Port Bypass
• Chapter 9. HTTPS
  • Service Configuration
  • SSL/TLS Acceleration
  • CipherSuite Selection
  • Checking the CipherSuite
  • Multi-Domain Configuration
  • Enabling Security Protocol
  • HSTS

3. Advanced Features

• Chapter 10. Monitoring & Statistics
  • Data Range
  • Host Aggregate Statistics
  • System Statistics
  • Virtual Host Statistics
  • View
  • Checking the Virtual Host List
  • Caching Information
  • Log Trace
• Chapter 11. SNMP
  • Variables
  • Activation
  • Virtual Host/View Variables
  • Community
  • meta
  • system
  • global
  • cache
  • cache.vhost
  • cache.view
• Chapter 12. Log
  • Install Log
  • Info Log
  • Deny Log
  • OriginError Log
  • SysLog Transfer
  • Saving Virtual Host Logs
  • DNS Log
  • Access Log
  • Custom Access Log Format
  • Origin Log
  • Monitoring Log
  • FileSystem Log
  • FTP Transfer
• Chapter 13. WM (Web Management)
  • Connection
  • Account
  • Update to Latest Version
  • Menu Structure
  • Global Settings
  • Virtual Host Management
  • Cluster
  • Content Control
  • System Information
  • Service Status

4. Management & Operation

• Chapter 14. Access Control
  • Server Access Control
  • GeoIP
  • Virtual Host Access Control
• Chapter 15. Bandwidth
  • Virtual Host Bandwidth Limits
  • Bandwidth Throttling
• Chapter 16. Media
  • Reordering MP4/M4A Header
  • Trimming
  • Multi-Trimming
  • MP4 HLS
  • MP3 HLS
  • DIMS
• Chapter 17. File System
  • Mount
  • Searching for Virtual Hosts
  • File/Directory
  • File Properties
  • Reading Files
  • Deleting Files
  • File Expansion
  • Wowza Integration
• Chapter 18. Optimization and More
  • Indexing
  • Memory Structure
  • Memory Management
  • System Free Memory
  • Caching Service Memory
  • Socket Memory
  • TCP Segmentation Offload
  • Client Request Limit
  • HTTP Client Session Count
  • Request hit ratio
  • Byte hit ratio
  • Origin Server Failure Policy
  • Time Units and Expressions
  • Emergency Mode
  • Disk Hot-Swap
  • SyncStale

Appendix

• Appendix A: Graph
  • Global Resource
  • Virtual Host
• Appendix B: Cacti Monitoring
  • Adding Templates
  • Device Registration
  • Graph Tree Creation
  • Graph Check
• Appendix D: Release Notes
  • v2.4.x
  • v2.3.x
  • v2.2.x
  • v2.1.x
  • v2.0.x