Would there be a way to get it to work with App Engine?
Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
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Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#32Can it be whitelabel? That is to say will everything still work if I were to myself CNAME/ALIAS mysaas.example.com to .shw.io then instruct my user to CNAME/ALIAS their domain to mysaas.example.com?
Edit: Answered my own question by testing - Yes it does work but with a suspicion it may break if shw.io ever splits off into more IPs instead of all resolving to the IP I'm given now
Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not, it's meant for cases where people need entirely different custom hostnames. Subdomains are quick and easy, but people have become quite a bit more demanding about how their stuff is branded, and tend to want it all on mydomain.com (instead of me.service.com). Actually I lied, it's probably a little easier than a wildcard cert. :D But not enough to matter. People who just need wildcard subdomains might want…
Actually when Let's Encrypt will provide free wildcard in early 2018 the later will be much more easier !
Yes! We're looking forward to this at Fly :)
Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#34Can it be whitelabel? That is to say will everything still work if I were to myself CNAME/ALIAS mysaas.example.com to .shw.io then instruct my user to CNAME/ALIAS their domain to mysaas.example.com? Edit: Answered my own question by testing - Yes it does work but with a suspicion it may break if shw.io ever splits off into more IPs instead of all resolving to the IP I'm given now
That will work fine if all the hostnames are on the same Fly site. It won't break down the road. :D
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#35> If you use Netlify and want to use Fly to broaden your application scope, perhaps hosting Netlify as your marketing site on your root domain, then something like a Heroku application at /app/, then you've come to the right place. Oh this is cool, you've got me intrigued there. > Google Auth -- ... Do you want to gate off a static page so that only your Google Org may see it? We make it easy! So does it integrate wi…
We do minimally integrate with G Suite, our auth middleware lets you require users to auth with Google, and restrict it to a particular @domain.com: https://fly.io/docs/guides/#google-auth-middleware
Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#36Would there be a way to get it to work with App Engine?
Yes! Send us an email and we can help: support@fly.io
Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#37I found the same problem also exists for the end users who are sometimes using apps that don't support custom hostnames but they still want a brandable domain for it. So I recently made https://www.ManagedAlias.com/ as an experiment to see if there is demand. I avoided the bulk/business route because you essentially have to be a CDN to pull that off (since you are doing the TLS termination). This is just geared towar…
How's this going for you? Are you getting any traffic/signups? Do you have an mvp that people are actually using? What are you doing to get traffic (other than posting here)?
Re: Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL
#38I found the same problem also exists for the end users who are sometimes using apps that don't support custom hostnames but they still want a brandable domain for it. So I recently made https://www.ManagedAlias.com/ as an experiment to see if there is demand. I avoided the bulk/business route because you essentially have to be a CDN to pull that off (since you are doing the TLS termination). This is just geared towar…
How's this going for you? Are you getting any traffic/signups? Do you have an mvp that people are actually using? What are you doing to get traffic (other than posting here)?
Not well :D
It was only "launched" recently and as an experiment.
Don't have a cheap way of getting traffic really.
I ran an AdWords campaign, grand total of 1 signup out of it, and they haven't done anything with it.
I have a basic form for someone to create their alias, the rest of it is just manual setup now as I didn't want to waste time before validating.
Not getting any clicks/signups since it's not linked from anywhere.