[plug] Domain redirection solution?

Onno Benschop onno at itmaze.com.au
Wed Oct 24 14:16:21 WST 2012


Anyone?

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On 23 Oct 2012 07:35, "Onno Benschop" <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> I received an email from ZoneEdit that reseller services will be
> discontinued next month. This impacts the 49 domains I have hosted there. I
> have started the process of looking for another service provider and am
> seriously considering Route 53 (Amazon) for a number of reasons.
>
> One catch.
>
> Route 53 does not support the apex domain redirection (or any other for
> that matter) that ZoneEdit does. Specifically, making a web request from
> http://example.com/ turn into http://www.example.com/, or
> http://brandname.com/ into http://brandname.company.com/ which I use a
> lot.
>
> I'd like to create an appliance where I can configure redirects and point
> web queries on their merry way.
>
> Here's my question:
>
> I can build a full Ubuntu server (in the cloud) that does this, but are
> there more minimalist - read, less updates, less CPU cycles, less
> maintenance, less software, etc. that I can deploy? Ideally someone can
> point me at an existing appliance that will do this, or perhaps you have
> some thoughts on how I might best implement this.
>
> Note that I don't really want to engage a 3rd party service, I'm already
> dealing with many registrars, Google Apps accounts, etc. Less is more for
> me in this case.
>
>
> Thoughts and comments?
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