Limits

• Domain name type: The domain name to be accelerated can be a specific domain name such as example.aliyundoc.com or a wildcard domain name such as *.aliyundoc.com.
• Domain name format:
  • The domain name must be in lowercase letters such as example.com. Domain names that contain uppercase letters are invalid.
  • If the domain name contains Chinese characters, such as 阿里云.网址, you must apply for an ICP number for the domain name and use the Punycode tool to convert the Chinese domain name to an English domain name, such as xn--fiq****.xn--eq****.
• Requirements for wildcard domain names:
  • DCDN supports wildcard domain names. For more information about the limits on wildcard domain names, see Does DCDN support wildcard domain names?
  • The wildcard domain name that you specify and the domain names that match the wildcard domain name must belong to the same Alibaba Cloud account. Otherwise, an error message appears when you add domain names. If the problem persists, submit a ticket.
  • If a wildcard domain name is not added to DCDN, you can add the domain names that match the wildcard domain name to DCDN by using different Alibaba Cloud accounts.
  • Each wildcard domain name can match up to 500 specific domain names. If more than 500 specific domain names are matched, only the first 500 specific domain names can acquire the settings of the wildcard domain name. Other domain names cannot be accelerated by DCDN.
    Note The first 500 specific domain names that match the wildcard domain name can be accelerated by DCDN.
• You cannot add duplicate domain names to DCDN.

  If the system prompts that the domain name is added to other Alibaba Cloud services, such as ApsaraVideo VOD and Alibaba Cloud CDN, you can submit a ticket.

• Each Alibaba Cloud account can add up to 50 domain names to DCDN.
  Note If the average daily peak bandwidth values of your domain names exceed 50 Mbit/s, you can submit a ticket to add more domain names to DCDN. Make sure that the increase of domain names does not cause business risks.
• The content that is delivered from the domain name must be legal and comply with the Terms of Service for DCDN. For more information about the limits, see Limits.
• Length: A domain name cannot exceed 67 characters in length.
• ICP filing: If the acceleration region of a domain name is set to Global or Mainland China Only, you must apply for an ICP number for the domain name. We recommend that you use Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing System to apply for ICP numbers.
• Domain name reclaiming: If your domain name remains disabled for 120 days, DCDN automatically deletes the configuration records that are related to the domain name. This rule also applies to domain names that fail ownership verification. If you want to continue using the domain name, you can log on to the DCDN console to add the domain name to DCDN again.
• Domain name disabling: For more information, see Rules for disabling accelerated domain names.

• Address length: The address of an origin server cannot exceed 67 characters in length.
• Maximum number of origin servers: You can set a maximum of 20 origin server addresses for each accelerated domain name.
• OSS Domain
  • If you use an Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket as the origin server, you can enter the public domain name of the OSS bucket, for example, ***.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyundoc.com. Internal domain names of OSS buckets are not supported.
  • You can view the public domain name of an OSS bucket in the OSS console. You can also select an OSS bucket that belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account from the Domain Name drop-down list.
• IP: Enter the public IP addresses of one or more servers. Public IP addresses of Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances do not need to be reviewed.
• Site Domain: Enter the domain names of one or more origin servers.
  Note

  • The origin domain name must be different from the accelerated domain name. If the origin domain name is the same as the accelerated domain name, a DNS resolution loop occurs, and requests cannot be redirected to the origin server.
  • The domain name must be in lowercase letters.
  • If a domain name contains Chinese characters, such as 阿里云.网址, you must apply for an ICP number for the domain name and use the Punnycode tool to convert the Chinese domain name to an English domain name, such as xn--fiq****.xn--eq****.

• Accelerated domain name

  Each Alibaba Cloud account can add up to 50 domain names to DCDN. If the average daily peak bandwidth value exceeds 50 Mbit/s and your workloads are protected, you can submit a ticket to add more domain names to DCDN.

• Cache refresh
  • URL refresh: 10,000 URLs per day for each Alibaba Cloud account.
  • Directory refresh: 100 directories per day for each Alibaba Cloud account.

  If the daily peak bandwidth value of your workloads exceeds 200 Mbit/s, you can submit a ticket to request a quota increase. After your application is approved, Alibaba Cloud increases the quota based on your business requirements.

• File prefetch

  You can prefetch files only by using URLs. Each Alibaba Cloud account can submit up to 1,000 URLs per day.

  If the daily peak bandwidth value of your workloads exceeds 200 Mbit/s, you can submit a ticket to request a quota increase. After your application is approved, Alibaba Cloud increases the quota based on your business requirements.

Alibaba Cloud reviews the content of all accelerated domain names. Domain names that cannot be accelerated by DCDN include but are not limited to:

• Websites whose content is inaccessible or does not provide valid information
• Servers that host pirated games
• Websites that provide multiplayer role-playing games and card games
• Websites that provide downloads of pirated software
• Websites that run peer-to-peer (P2P) lending
• Unofficial lottery websites
• Websites of unlicensed hospitals and pharmaceuticals
• Websites that contain pornography, drugs, and gambling content

• An HTTP request header cannot exceed 300 bytes.
• The timeout period.

  By default, the timeout period for back-to-origin requests that are transmitted over TCP is 10 seconds. The timeout period for back-to-origin requests that are transmitted over HTTP is 30 seconds.

• Response header

  If an origin server does not respond to Content-Type, DCDN automatically adds Content-Type:application/octet-stream.

• Automatic conversion from HEAD to GET for back-to-origin requests

  By default, HEAD requests are sent to DCDN nodes before the requests are redirected to origin servers. In this case, HEAD requests are converted to GET requests. If you do not want to convert HEAD requests to GET requests, you can navigate to the Custom Origin HTTP Header tab in the DCDN console, and configure custom HTTP headers for back-to-origin requests. For more information, see Configure a custom origin HTTP header.

• File cache
  • If the request to a file that is larger than 100 MB is a cache miss, and the origin server returns a no-cache response header, DCDN closes the connection after the amount of data transmitted from the origin server reaches 100 MB.
  • If the origin server returns a response header whose Cache-Control directive allows the response to be cached, DCDN nodes can cache files that are up to 500 GB in size.
• File upload

  You can upload files to origin servers by using DCDN. Each file can be up to 300 MB in size.

If you want to run stress tests on a domain name that is accelerated by DCDN, you must submit ticket at least three days in advance. Otherwise, you may experience the following issues:

Stress tests on the number of queries per second (QPS) may trigger HTTP flood protection rules of DCDN and the domain name is added to a sandbox.

HTTP/1.1: For the large_client_header_buffers directive, number is set to 4 and size is set to 64 KB. In this case, the length of an individual HTTP request header or an individual URL cannot exceed 64 KB. Otherwise, the HTTP 414 status code is returned. The total length of all HTTP request headers and URLs cannot exceed 256 KB. Otherwise, the HTTP 400 status code is returned.

ErrorCode:Throttling
ErrorMessage:Request was denied due to flow control.