Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS

Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by erikpukinskis on Monday May 23, 2011 @05:37AM (#2575437)

My first reaction was that this is a crock... after all, don't all the big hot internet companies use root domains? But I looked into it, and Facebook, Google, Apple (and Heroku) .coms all redirect to www. Only Twitter rocks the bare root domain.

I rely heavily on root domains in my printed materials (sending people to sproutrobot.com/water and such), but I'm starting to think redirecting users to www--so bookmarks, social media and the like point there and the majority of my users hit www first--is a good idea.

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by ryantownsend on Monday May 23, 2011 @05:54AM (#2575459)

If you were worried about non-www links working during downtime/issues, you could setup multiple cheap hosts around the world with nothing more than a rewrite to the www. subdomain (where your main app is hosted). Then add the multiple IPs to your root domain's A records - that way you have no configuration to worry about (the non-www hosts literally just redirect to the same path on a different domain), and you don't have to worry about those redirects going down due to DNS round robin on multiple hosts.

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by billpg on Monday May 23, 2011 @06:52AM (#2575537)

I'd be surprised if there isn't someone offering this as a service already.

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by eli on Monday May 23, 2011 @08:06AM (#2575677)

Sure, lots of commercial DNS services offer URL redirection. I know dnsmadeasy does it, as does namecheap.

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