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Test QUIC.cloud CDN from all locations

Under QUIC.cloud's Standard Plan, your website is automatically served from an appropriate node in our extensive CDN Network. When a CDN node receives requests for your content, it accesses your server backend once for each URL, storing eligible URLs in the CDN node's cache for future access. This is very beneficial for your website as it leads to an excellent TTFB.

QUIC.cloud chooses the appropriate CDN node for your website automatically, however there might be times when you want to see what is happening with a specific node, or from a specific location.

QUIC.cloud provides two ways for you to look more closely at how our network communicates with your domain:

Both of these pages are available from your QUIC.cloud Dashboard, making it very easy to see all active nodes, their exact locations, and their IP addresses. You can use these pages to access your website through one or more specific nodes, using one of the following methods.

Use the Test URL Tool

This is a handy tool to use if you want to check connectivity between one or more CDN edge servers and your origin server, or do a basic content check. CDN edge servers have proper SSL certificates and site configurations.

You can test the whole network at once, or you can select just a few nodes to test. Be aware, though, the more nodes you select, the longer it will take, and the more CDN bandwidth you will consume. This tool does pull from your bandwidth quota, so use it judiciously.

Test CDN globally via URL Tool

  1. Log in to your QUIC.cloud Dashboard.
  2. Select your domain and navigate to CDN > Test URL Tool.
  3. Enter your Domain (example.com) and the URL Path you'd like to test (/ for the home page or something like /path/to/page/.
  4. Select the CDN Nodes that you would like to check.
  5. Press the Check URL button, and wait for your results

When the process is complete, you will see the the HTML response code listed in the Result column for each node you checked. You will also see a selection of response headers in the Detail column, which you can expand to show all of the headers, or the entire response.

If you want to test a page so that it's viewable in a browser, you'll need to do it another way. The next two methods explain how to use the Active CDN Node IP List to view your domain directly through one of the CDN's nodes.

Use your computer's host file

  1. Log in to your QUIC.cloud Dashboard.
  2. Use the Active CDN Node IP List to look up the IP address of the node that you want to test.
  3. Add a new line to your hosts file which contains the node's IP address followed by your domain name, and save the file.
  4. Now, when you access your website, it will go directly through that node. Remove this line from your hosts file, when you are finished testing.

Tip

To edit your hosts file:

  • Windows: open C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts while logged-in as Administrator.
  • Linux or MacOS: open /etc/hosts while logged-in as root

Example

If the CDN node's IP address is listed as 192.0.2.0 and your domain is exmple.com, you would add the following lines to your hosts file: 

192.0.2.0 example.com
192.0.2.0 www.example.com
(We added both www and non-www domains to cover both cases.)

Use a third-party tool

Test CDN globally via SkipDNS

  1. Log in to your QUIC.cloud Dashboard.
  2. Use the Active CDN Node IP List to look up the IP address of the node that you want to test.
  3. Use a Third-Party website like SkipDNS, and fill out their form, as shown in the screenshot above:
    • Preview: the regular website (the default setting)
    • hosted on: the CDN node's IP address, for example 192.0.2.0
    • under: your domain, for example example.com
    • over: regular ports (the default setting)
  4. Press the Go button. A preview link will be created for you, and you can use that to view your website as it appears when accessed directly from the CDN node you chose.