I definitely like CloudFlare, especially because you also get transparent CDN and some security filtering as well. The only caveat is that if you need SSL you'll have to pay for it (unless you don't care about browser warnings).
Jarin On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:50:55 PM UTC-8, Scott Olmsted wrote: > > I use the free option from Zerigo DNS at Heroku to manage custom domains > for a half-dozen static and Rails sites. I suspect tens of thousands of > Heroku users do the same. > > Got this from Zerigo today: > > If you are currently on an unpaid Zerigo DNS plan, and would like to > continue > to utilize Zerigo DNS services through Heroku, you must convert your > account > to a paid Zerigo Virtual DNS plan by January 31st, 2014. > > The minimum cost is $7.00/month, which is not killer, but $42.00/month for > six sites had me looking for an alternative. I found CloudFlare and moved > the DNS for one site to their free plan. Seems to work fine. > > I used the instructions at > http://www.higherorderheroku.com/articles/cloudflare-dns-heroku/ but they > are not very clear, so here's what I did. In this case I added just two > records: > > A mysitename.com points to 75.101.163.44 > CNAME www is an alias of mysitename.herokuapp.com > > and I added one Page Rule, first turning Forwarding 'On': > > mysitename.com/* > Forwarding: http://www.mysitename.com/$1 > Forwarding type: Permanent - 301 > > Then I went to the domain name host (in this case GoDaddy) and changed the > domain name servers to > > dan.ns.cloudflare.com > kara.ns.cloudflare.com > > Seems that it is the rule that redirects domain level requests to the www > subdomain and the A record is superfluous, but apparently it's needed for > CloudFlare's setup to work. > > I hope this saves someone some time. > > Scott > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
