Documentation
Find the steps by your role or by the task: installing the control plane and nodes, onboarding sites, licences and the portal, the node market and plugins.
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By role
| Your role | What you can do | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Control-plane administrator | Install the control plane and nodes; manage sites, users, plans and settings | Install the control plane |
| Site user | Manage your own sites, origins, HTTPS, cache, protection and account | Site user guide |
| Licence portal customer | View and renew licences, generate install commands, top up and check orders | Licence portal |
| Licensing operator | Manage customers, licences, identity reviews, payments and market reviews | Licensing console |
| Node supplier | Apply, publish offers, serve buyers, settle and exit | Node supplier |
| Node subscriber | Choose nodes, top up and buy, use them for sites, track usage and stop | Node subscriber |
| Plugin user | Get, install, enable, upgrade and disable plugins | Plugins |
By task
| Task | Who | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Install the control plane for the first time | Administrator | Install the control plane |
| Install your own node and bring it online | Administrator | Install a node |
| Put a site on the platform | Administrator | Add a site and point the domain |
| Visitors still see old content | Site user | Purge and prewarm |
| Change the origin | Site user | Change the origin |
| HTTPS fails or the certificate is expiring | Site user | HTTPS and certificates |
| Legitimate requests are blocked | Site user | Handle false positives |
| Check usage, bills or plan expiry | Site user | Plans and billing |
| Add users, plans or resellers | Administrator | Users, plans and resellers |
| Restart, upgrade, back up or migrate | Administrator | Operations |
| Sell your own nodes | Supplier | Node supplier |
| Subscribe to nodes for your control plane | Subscriber | Node subscriber |
| Upstream nodes or balances fail in a resale chain | Supplier, subscriber | Node market problems |
| Install a plugin | Administrator, site user | Plugins |
| Something failed | Administrator | Troubleshooting |
If a menu is missing, first check which platform you are in and whether you signed in as an administrator or a regular user (see Entry points and accounts). Licence and purchase questions go to the platform; control-plane resources to your administrator; nodes to your direct supplier; plugins to your administrator or the plugin provider. Plugin development is covered on the developer platform.
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Start herecdnca entry points and accounts, what to do when a menu is missing, good habits, and how these docs are organised.RequirementsSupported systems, CPU, memory and disk requirements for the cdnca control plane and nodes, and the ports to open.Install the control planeGenerate the command in the licence centre, install the cdnca control plane, sign in, gateway ports and firewall, and what to do for each failed step.Install a nodeInstall a cdnca node with the command from the console, common flags, initialisation, adding it to a line group and checking it works.Sites, domains, certificates and protectionFor administrators: DNS and CNAME domains, adding sites, pointing domains, HTTPS certificates, protection and publishing.Users, plans and resellersFor administrators: users, plans, resellers and line-group grants, top-ups, adjustments and orders.Settings and daily operationsControl-plane settings, logs and background tasks, gateways, pages opened by direct address, and maintenance, upgrades and backups.Restart, upgrade, uninstall and migrateRestart, logs, upgrades, backups, node uninstall and control-plane migration for cdnca.Site user guideFor regular users: your sites, DNS, purge and prewarm, origins, HTTPS, false positives, plans and bills, and account security.Licence portalIn the licence centre: view and filter licences, buy or claim free licences, renew, change the control-plane IP, generate install commands, top up and profile.Licensing consoleFor platform operators: customers and licences, identity reviews, licensing mode and payments, market reviews, activity log and operator roles.Node supplierApply as a node supplier, payouts and deposit, create and publish offers, subscribers and stop tickets, income, disputes and leaving.Node subscriberChoose nodes, top up and buy from a supplier, have an administrator connect sites, daily checks, usage statements and stopping.Node market problemsWhere to look and whom to ask for common node-market problems, including upstream issues in resale chains.PluginsAdministrators buy, download and enable plugins in the store; users install, upgrade and disable them in the plugin market; free modules and moving servers.TroubleshootingCommon cdnca problems by failed step: install failures, sign-in, lost passwords, nodes offline, sites not opening, unclear results and whom to contact.