---
title: Introduction to CDN
summary: >-
  This is a step-by-step tutorial that shows you how to use the Fastly CDN with
  an example website and domain name.
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn
---

This tutorial guides you through the steps of caching and delivering a static website using the Jekyll static site generator, Amazon AWS, and the Fastly CDN.

- [1. Introduction](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/1-introduction/) - This section describes the initial things you need to be familiar with when setting up the Fastly CDN for an example website.
- [2. Getting started with Fastly](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/2-getting-started-with-fastly/) - Let's get started by creating a Fastly account and logging in to the Fastly web interface. We can sign up for a trial account — no credit card information is required.
- [3. Adding niceties](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/3-adding-niceties/) - In this section, we'll explore some of the edge features available to our Fastly service. We'll configure Fastly to serve synthetic responses to certain types of requests, enable compression of our assets, and configure a streaming logging endpoint so we can see who's visiting our website.
- [4. Configuring caching](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/4-configuring-caching/) - You have complete control over what content is cached, and for how long that content is cached.
- [5. Go live](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/5-go-live/) - We've done a lot of work to prepare our Fastly service for the Taco Labs website! Now it's time to put the finishing touches on things so we can go live and start using Fastly for our production website.
- [6. Advanced configuration](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/6-advanced-configuration/) - In this section, we’ll provide some tips and tricks for dealing with day-to-day website issues and headaches.
- [7. Conclusion](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/tutorials/full-site-delivery/introduction-to-cdn/7-conclusion/) - That’s a wrap! We’ve successfully started using Fastly to cache our static website.