At YUDU, we invest in high quality, high performance and high security AWS servers, but we appreciate that some clients may wish to host their own digital publications.
There are two methods by which you can self-host your digital publications, by means of a manual upload to your server or by publishing directly via custom subdomain.
'Publish to Zip' method
We can package all the asset files that are used to run your digital edition and provide these to you as a zipped file, which can then be hosted on a server of your choice.
Your self-hosted digital ediiton should operate as it normal by communicating with YUDU Publisher, retaining the login functionality, if applicable; even the analytics will continue to be captured on YUDU Publisher. Please note: to retain login or reporting functionality, you will need to ensure that you aren't hosting on a private intranet network or that Publisher isn't being blacklisted by your firewall. Please contact support@yudu.com if you experience any issues.
The main benefit of self-hosting on your own servers is that the live URL address is automatically masked to the server it’s placed on. For example, the self-hosted live URL can be made to include your own domain name, such as ‘www.DomainName/DigitalEditionName’ as opposed to ‘www.content.yudu.com/DigitalEditionName’.
How does it work?
Once the digital edition is published live, we have the option to "Publish to Zip".
This will generate a download link that provides you with a .zip file containing all the assets used to run the digital edition.
After extracting the asset folder, you can then upload this to the server you control.
If you do not see the "Publish to Zip" button and require upgraded permissions, please contact your account manger or send an email to support@yudu.com.
A final note: when self-hosting using this method, you are responsible for the security, delivery speeds and up-time of your publications, all of which are provided as part of the service when using the default hosting method via YUDU.
Custom Sub-Domain Hosting
Another option is for our team to create a sub-domain on AWS so that all your content is hosted on this sub-domain, therefore masking the URL automatically to the domain name of your choice. There’s a one-time setup fee for this then all your published content can reside within this sub-domain.
How does it work?
We’ll need to know the URL, and be given a subdomain-specific https certificate from you, i.e. editions.client.com and a cert for editions.client.com - we’ll then set it up, and give you a URL that you’ll need to point your DNS servers to (this URL will look something like 1057150715.cloudfront.net or similar).
Please note, we’ll need the new certs resupplied to us every time the old ones expire (please set a reminder to resupply them to us).
Setting this up normally takes a week or two, once we have all the required certificates from you.
To set up custom sub-domain hosting, please contact your account manger or send an email to support@yudu.com.