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Re:This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name? by gumby on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:01PM (#14726948)
If you don't need load balancing and redirects (i.e. like most people you don't have huge load requirements) just use A records instead of CNAME records.
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Re:This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name? by dom0 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @05:04PM (#14727189)
CNAME-based hosting is really common (SaaS, GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, ...).
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