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.<div>
<br></div><div>One catch.</div><div><br></div><div>Route 53 does not support the apex domain redirection (or any other for that matter) that ZoneEdit does. Specifically, making a web request from <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a> turn into <a href="http://www.example.com/">http://www.example.com/</a>, or <a href="http://brandname.com/">http://brandname.com/</a> into <a href="http://brandname.company.com/">http://brandname.company.com/</a> which I use a lot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd like to create an appliance where I can configure redirects and point web queries on their merry way.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's my question:</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts and comments?</div>-- <br>Onno Benschop<br><br>()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..<br>|>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno..<br>--- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno..<br><br>ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - <a href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au" target="_blank">onno@itmaze.com.au</a><br>
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