How to have a 100% uptime subdomain redirect?

nqservices

Hi all,

At the moment I have the below redirect on my own webserver, using a 301 code, setup on a .htaccess file:

subdomain1.domain.com > redirects to > subdomain2.domain.com

But sometimes my webserver is down and I need to have this redirect online as near as 100% uptime as possible.

I was thinking on using a 3rd party service like https://redirect.pizza/, but maybe there are better self-hosted or 3rd party options. Any ideas?

P.S: DNS for the domain is hosted on GcoreDNS, that does not support Web redirects. I see that Cloudns for example on their paid plans, do support dns based Web redirects.

Thanks

tentor

Two web servers and two A/AAAA records? The most budget option and should significantly increase subdomain redirect availability.

nqservices

@tentor said:
Two web servers and two A/AAAA records? The most budget option and should significantly increase subdomain redirect availability.

Good idea, but I think in case of one server is down, some clients may still get dns cache and not to be redirected to the server is up.

tentor

@nqservices said:

@tentor said:
Two web servers and two A/AAAA records? The most budget option and should significantly increase subdomain redirect availability.

Good idea, but I think in case of one server is down, some clients may still get dns cache and not to be redirected to the server is up.

They should attempt to connect to another IP + AFAIK most DNS servers actually randomize order of records on each request so impact should be minimal and not cause same downtime you would get with single A/AAAA record pair

emgh

Cloudflare free tier😀

tentor

@emgh said:
Cloudflare free tier😀

It is not a downtime when 30% of the Internet is down, right?

emgh

@tentor said:

@emgh said:
Cloudflare free tier😀

It is not a downtime when 30% of the Internet is down, right?

Yep this is a big pro

Boss doesn’t get mad if site is down if half of the internet is down as well

And not only boss, visitors are more okay with your site being down if their most used other sites are down as well

Actually true

DrNutella

Wait Cloudflare free tier isn’t up 100% of the time? I need to chargeback yesterday!

DediRock

2-3 servers, DNS, Cloudflare = 100% ish uptime

gremeyer

@nqservices said:
I was thinking on using a 3rd party service like https://redirect.pizza/

People pay $15+ per month just to redirect a website?

I recommend using Cloudflare for free with a page rule. No server needed, the redirects happen on their CDN.

eb1995

Host your domain somewhere else……?

budi1413

spaceship gave free url redirect in their dns control panel

https://www.spaceship.com/blog/domain-updates/#august-2024