Powering the best of the internet | Fastly offers reliable, fast, and customizable options to deliver shared content from Fotoware Alto. Fastly offers real-time observability, baked-in security, and programmatic control.

The CDN (Content Delivery Network) can be enabled per customer to distribute email shares and embeds via the Fastly CDN. Both default caching time and serving stale content are also configurable per customer.

A Fastly-specific mechanism called Shielding increases the likelihood that stale or embedded content is served when Fotoware Alto is unavailable (due to maintenance or other issues). With Shielding enabled, the origin server receives all requests from a single designated POP (point of presence) rather than from multiple POPs across the Fastly network.

Shielding provides the following benefits:

• Improves cache hit ratio (CHR) - increases the probability of end-user requests resulting in a cache HIT.
• Speeds up connections - reduces connection setup latency for MISS and PASS requests that must be served from the Fotoware Alto API.
• Reduced number of requests to the Fotoware Alto API.

Please contact support if you need assistance with this feature.