If it were me, I would set the ip (A record) on the root, and then use a CNAME to alias www to the root. Then you don't need any redirects, and you don't need t

If it were me, I would set the ip (A record) on the root, and then use a CNAME to alias www to the root. Then you don't need any redirects, and you don't need to worry about server doing the redirects going down and taking your site with it.