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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ideally, you want web redirects to
happen on your final destination webserver for most things.<br>
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Think for example, when you try to ssh example.com, and instead of
getting your webserver, you get zoneedits redirection server. This
is a big pain to me, and for this reason recently migrated all our
web redirects from zoneedit to our own web server.<br>
<br>
I did a fairly simple setup with Nginx (which allows wildcard
hostnames, and is super lightweight in memory usage) to put in our
web redirects, as some of the redirects couldn't be done on the
destination servers (i.e. the exchange webmail).<br>
<br>
As Shaun already pointed out, wildcards can be your friend. My
suggestion though would be avoid the wildcards in DNS, and have a
Nginx web server serving your redirects (using wildcards where
possible). If you really need the GUI functionality then throw
together a simple php script that just modifies Nginx config
files. Using /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ style config files, each
redirect can have it's own file, each redirect essentially becomes
a virtual server which is then a very quick hash lookup in Nginx
to find the virtual server, and then a redirect to the final
destination.<br>
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Hope that helps you.<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
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On 24/10/12 16:16, Onno Benschop wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Anyone?</p>
<p dir="ltr">()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 Oct 2012 07:35, "Onno Benschop"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au">onno@itmaze.com.au</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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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.
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<div>One catch.</div>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">http://example.com/</a>
turn into <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.example.com/" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/</a>,
or <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://brandname.com/"
target="_blank">http://brandname.com/</a> into <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://brandname.company.com/" target="_blank">http://brandname.company.com/</a>
which I use a lot.</div>
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<div>I'd like to create an appliance where I can configure
redirects and point web queries on their merry way.</div>
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<div>Here's my question:</div>
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<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>
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<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
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<div>Thoughts and comments?</div>
-- <br>
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