Hey! Over here! - Domain redirection
The problem.
As we move into a more service oriented world on the internet, I keep seeing people run into a common problem. You buy a domain, you find an email provider like google so you set your MX record for yourdomain.com to them. Then you find a blog host, or something else you’d like to host on the domain and you set a CNAME record for www.yourdomain.com to that service. Now you realize you need a way to drive people from yourdomain.com back to www.yourdomain.com so that people that don’t put the www in front can find it.
The solution.
You set the A record for yourdomain.com to 174.143.24.6 on your DNS host. We have a webserver with a magical configuration that will redirect the users back to www.yourdomain.com for you. That’s it.
Why?
Because I have a number of small projects where I’ve run into the same issue and rather than constantly create new configs for each site, I decided to put together a more general solution and share it with anyone that wants to use it.
How we monitor it.
I have monitors setup with Was it up? and with Montastic against a special page on the same server. Eventually it will have some neat statistics, but for now it’s just for monitoring.
