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Use your own KeyCDN account as a site's CDN

Copy your KeyCDN API key from Account Authentication and connect it, so a site can run on your own KeyCDN account with purge and settings managed from your dashboard.

What connecting it does for you

Connecting your own KeyCDN account lets you put a site on your CDN instead of ours. The zone, the traffic and the bill are on your account, and you can still purge the cache and change the CDN's settings from inside your Zinn® dashboard — no switching between panels.

Before you start

A KeyCDN account.

1. Create the key at KeyCDN

Sign in to the KeyCDN dashboard and open Account → Authentication, where your API key is shown. A live key begins sk_prod_.

2. Connect it here

Open Integrations in your dashboard and choose Connect an account. Pick Your own CDN as the group and KeyCDN as the account, fill in API key, and press Connect account.

We test what you paste before anything is saved. A key that does not work is never stored, and the answer says what was wrong with it. A key that works is kept encrypted in our secrets vault — never in our database — and is never shown again, not even to you.

What happens next

  • Open a site's CDN tab. Under Where this site is served from, this account
  • appears as a destination. Choose it and confirm; we build the site's configuration on your account, check it, and only then move the site across, so the site stays up during the move.

  • From the same tab you can purge the site's cache and change its CDN settings on your
  • account.

  • When you connect, we check what the key can do: list your zones or properties, read one in
  • detail, purge the cache, change settings and — where the vendor has them — geographic rules. The checklist beside the connection shows which of those we could confirm, so a missing permission is visible before you move a site onto the account.

  • Deploy a site to your own CDN account covers moving a site between accounts in detail.

If it does not connect

It was rejected. Check the whole key was copied, including the sk_prod_ prefix, and that it has not been regenerated since.

It says the key was rejected. Almost always one of three things: a space or a line break copied with it, a key that has expired, or a key that was revoked or regenerated after you copied it. Create a fresh one and paste it again.

It connects, but something later fails. The key authenticates but lacks a permission the action needs. Create a new key with the permissions listed above, then disconnect the old connection and connect the new key.

Disconnecting

Open Integrations, find the account and press Disconnect. That deletes the stored key at once. Anything that was using it stops at its next action, and the screens that depended on it say so rather than failing quietly.

Disconnecting does not undo what was already done — records, deployments or settings we changed on your account stay as they are. If you think the key itself may have leaked, also revoke it at the vendor; disconnecting removes our copy, not theirs.

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