Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS

Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by yuvadam on Monday May 23, 2011 @05:00AM (#2575376)

This is an interesting point. The www. prefix seems to be slowly fading away from the landscape, but URLs without the prefix never felt like first-class citizens on the web.

The inability to use CNAMEs in root level domains also affects other aspects, such as load balancing [1].

[1] - http://blog.y3xz.com/post/3920967238/the-anomaly-of-amazon-e...

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by delinka on Monday May 23, 2011 @05:46AM (#2575451)

My reading of the heroku post seemed to indicate that the recommendation is for heroku customers only. Of course, if your own systems are using reverse proxy to serve up content, then the advice may also apply to you.

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by hassy on Monday May 23, 2011 @07:28AM (#2575607)

I think "www" will make a comeback with increasing popularity of non .com/.net/.org TLDs. "whatever.io" looks like a web address to most of us here, but not to many others, even computer-savvy "normals".

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by temptemptemp13 on Monday May 23, 2011 @07:40AM (#2575631)

But the webadmin of "whatever.io" is probably too cool to consider "www.whatever.io" as a viable web address for a startup company.

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by tybris on Monday May 23, 2011 @08:46AM (#2575748)

Seems like Amazon is addressing this

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=67849&...

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