Clearalias
The easiest way to provide secure custom domains for your web platform
Clearalias
The easiest way to provide secure custom domains for your web platform
Clearalias seamlessly serves and manages HTTPS Certificates for your customers. Perfect for SaaS, IaaS, or platform providers that host customer content on a variety of domains.
Whether you're a blog provider, a marketplace provider, a SaaS backend, or other digital platform vendor, you may want to expose your customers' published content via a Custom Domain of their choice. Traditionally, this meant dealing rolling your own infrastructure to serve and manage certificates as well as proxy traffic to your platform backend. Clearalias makes this dead simple with no configuration needed on your backend and very little DNS configuration for your customers.
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How do you circumvent this?
And is there a way to have my customers point their CNAME to one of my own domains? Having them point to Clearalias is not a commitment I'd make at this point. (Talk about vendor lock-in!)
I was looking for a service like this at the time but didnt find anything. Essentially one way to make this happen is by setting up your own VPS and installing Nginx. You can use Lets encrypt to generate the certs for your domains. Nginx will then serve the cert you choose based on the origin of the request. It was honestly quite complicated so a service like this would be really appreciated.
Also I think you can just CNAME your domain to Clearalias and then get your customers to CNAME to yours and it will just resolve with the origin from the initial request.
Good point about CNAME'ing the CNAME. I've done something similar before which worked fine.