One hostname
Infrastructure
reverse proxy service
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
5 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 27 critical, out of 46 comments about the project. Thread score -0.40.
Design: 5 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 9 againstIdea: 0 for, 8 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Landing page artwork and design are attractive
From 3 comments
LOVE the artwork here! Great story guys.
thomcrowe on HNI don't really have anything to add beside that the fly.io website is beautiful.
spookyuser on HNI love the landing page story. I also strive for single hostnames, but preferably out of one's own server through a proxy in front instead of folders. Relative URLs in subfolders…
mzzter on HN
Objections
Routing all traffic through a third party is a security and privacy risk
From 3 comments
All data, including user passwords, and all their content going through a third party. All exchanged for some dubious SEO benefits. What can go wrong?
megous on HNIt's a service that transforms subdomains to paths. E.g.: blog.example.com -> example.com/blog api.example.com -> example.com/api docs.example.com -> example.com/docs ... and so…
theoctopus on HNIt's a paths to subdomains reverse proxy service. Or, an opportunity to completely fuck yourself when someone breaches them and starts logging all your customer login requests
stephenr on HN
Landing page does not explain what the product does
From 3 comments
This could be an object lesson in how not to build a landing page. What is this? What is it for? I see a cartoon...but what the hell does any of it mean? Why am I signing up?…
BugsJustFindMe on HNGot the same first impression. How can a link like this get to the first page of HN? Without any useful information without having to look on another page, wouldn't it just go…
geekuillaume on HNI, and I suppose a lot of people, give between 3-5 seconds to tell me what it does. If I am not able to find a reference to anything within this time - I will close the tab. I…
BartSaM on HN
SEO benefit of subfolders over subdomains is unproven
From 2 comments
Okay, so the claim is subdomains = bad, subfolders = good. Is that true? I'm seeing vague claims ("Subdomains accumulate positive signals differently than root domains") without…
CharlesW on HN> Many people have tested this and written about their results: But I can also find articles saying that subdomains are good for SEO, and Google itself says that subdomains are…
CharlesW on HN
Questions
What exactly does the service do and for whom
From 2 comments
I still don't know what this is for, all the fluff (inserted to keep the reader's attention when explaining stuff that might be boring) gets in the way.
falsedan on HNI spent 30 seconds looking at this, and have no idea what they are selling. The first "usable" content was something about taking down blue towers. If you have to sell me on the…
mdekkers on HN
Alternatives named
Nginx or Caddy reverse proxy configured yourself
From 2 comments
If you want to do this yourself, caddy http server [0] works really well and is incredibly easy to use / setup. They even have an example on their home page that shows this for…
Prefinem on HNWe have an article about how to do it yourself with nginx, if you feel like setting up a bunch of servers in different places:…
mrkurt on HN
Traefik
From 1 comment
Alternatively: https://traefik.io/
kodablah on HN
CloudFlare
From 1 comment
A bit like CloudFlare?
quickthrower2 on HN
AWS CloudFront
From 1 comment
You can do this with AWS cloudfront
eadz on HN