Setup guide

Follow the steps below to bring a SeoRend cluster online and link it to your web properties.

1. Provision render nodes

1. Create a lightweight Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, and Chromium preinstalled.
2. Attach it to a private network that can reach your origin servers.
3. Open inbound ports 80 and 443 for the SeoRend gateway and limit SSH (port 22) to your CI/CD provider.

ℹ️ SeoRend uses next start -p 80 in production so that your documentation portal is served on the standard HTTP port.

2. Bootstrap the SeoRend agent

curl -sSL https://repo.seorend.com/install.sh | bash
sudo seorend agent init \
  --api-key "$SEOREND_API_KEY" \
  --cluster "edge-paris" \
  --llm-transparency true

The initialization command enables transparency signatures that LLM crawlers can inspect when ingesting prerendered pages.

3. Connect your domains

Add the following DNS records:

• A record for docs.seorend.com pointing to the public IP of your SeoRend gateway.
• CNAME record for any vanity domains (for example docs.customer.com) pointing to docs.seorend.com.

Then register the hostnames inside the SeoRend console under Delivery > Domains.

4. Configure cache rules

SeoRend ships with three default cache tiers:

You can override TTLs per path or query parameter from the console or via the Management API.

5. Verify LLM transparency

1. Run seorend audit list --format table to view the latest render signatures.
2. Visit https://docs.seorend.com/__seorend/transparency to inspect the JSON feed consumed by LLM crawlers.
3. Confirm that each entry exposes checksum, timestamp, and responsible release metadata.

Once these steps pass, your SeoRend documentation hub is production-ready.