I was lucky enough to come up with a name that’s pretty cool - imo- with domain names the price of lunch. So I got two: thecist.com, thecist.dev

I decided to use thecist.dev as my main domain, with thecist.com redirecting users over

So I got to work, created a DNS forwarding rule for thecist.com

And one for my many subdomains

… what?

What do you mean I have to remember and create a new forwarding rule anytime I decide to have a new subdomain?

I’m way too lazy for that

So I spent the better part of my day creating a script that did just that for me

Setup

Here’s how I set it up on squarespace

Note: redirect.thecist.com could be any domain name hosting the redirect script

Author’s Notes

It’s refreshing seeing my laziness pay off again, although if I’m being honest I might still end up creating a few rules

I’m currently figuring out how to dynamically create ssl certs for my sub domains using Traefik and Squarespace’s DNS

So until then I’m stuck with self signed certs and a really angsty browser