GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow

Re:GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow by dieulot on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @11:04AM (#7738470)

Damn, didn’t know that. Thanks, I’ll update.

Edit: Done, seeing changes will need an F5.

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Re:GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow by pilif on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @11:09AM (#7738491)

Note that some DNS providers hack around the issue (like CloudFlate by pretending your CNAME was in-fact an A record http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-...), but if you're self-hosting DNS or your DNS provider doesn't do any special handling, then you can't have a root CNAME

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Re:GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow by pudquick on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @01:27PM (#7739395)

You could also suggest using a free service like:

http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect

It'll 302 redirect naked domains to www.domain, which will resolve to whatever you've configured it for.

This should let you chain A -> 302 redirect -> CNAME and bypass the GitHub DDoS protection.

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