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It's still impossible to host the root domain of your website on S3/CloudFront or serve it through an EC2 Elastic Load Balancer. www.mycompany.com - OK mycompa
by mleonhard 16y ago
It's still impossible to host the root domain of your website on S3/CloudFront or serve it through an EC2 Elastic Load Balancer.
www.mycompany.com - OK
mycompany.com - needs an EC2 instance and Elastic IP
This is because the only way to point your domain at Amazon is with a CNAME record and DNS does not support default CNAME records. It can only work if you add your CNAME record to the 'com.' top-level domain, which is impossible. See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32044 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32044
- speleding 16y agoThat is easily solved by doing a permanent redirect (301) from mycompany.com to www.mycompany.com. Many DNS providers such as Godaddy.com have a free redirect service just for that purpose.
- StavrosK 16y agoDo they? I have to look for that, I've been sending all those to a server of mine for that purpose, but if that server goes down or shuts down or anything, my redirects will stop working. Thanks for the info!
- fierarul 16y agoSee http://www.wwwizer.com/ http://www.wwwizer.com/ , hosted on EC2 btw last I checked.
- StavrosK 16y agoFantastic, thank you. I thought of making something like that, but now I don't have to!
- mleonhard 16y agoI'm thinking of making a paid version of this, with multiple IPs in each region. I registered rootredir.com. Are any of you interested in this? How much would it be worth to you per month?
- luigi 16y agoStill a dealbreaker for me. I don't want people to bookmark or search engines to crawl my domain prefixed with "www". That seriously offends my sensibilities.
- Supermighty 16y agoAnd this will be one big reason why I wont move any of my sites there. I prefer non-www to www.