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by soci 4757 days ago
DNSimple seems the best way to go if you want to host your service with Heroku using a root domain (no www at the beginning of the domain name) [1].

Unfortunately, DNSimple is now the weakest layer of our stack. And at http://KiteBit we are suffering it right now!

[1]https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#root-do...)
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robotmay 4757 days ago
Yep, I just got whacked by this at https://www.photographer.io (www is working at least). Guess I've learnt my lesson about using the root domain.

However I'm glad this happened whilst I was still beta testing! My CloudFront stack was pointing at the root domain, which was stupid. Fixed that now.

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soci 4757 days ago
We were not so lucky.

We have a URL forwarding set to www that points to out root domain so we are completely down.

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robotmay 4757 days ago
I've just switched over to Route 53 as this attack is still ongoing. Alas the DNS is one of the last things you think about when building an app, you just assume that it's going to work and entirely forget it exists while it is working :\
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