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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.


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


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




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