I've been wanting to host a website using my jamesmcardle.eth ENS domain name, however I found it extremely annoying to have to pay for gas each time I updated my ENS domain with a new content hash on IPFS. I worked out a solution which I think is quite flexible.

Firstly I created a html page and uploaded it to pinata. The index.html file I created had a simple redirect to a domain that I own, [jamesmcardle.au](http://jamesmcardle.au)

```cv
gallery
{"layout":"hscroll","images":[{"src":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/maitake-project.appspot.com/o/pages%2FoTrcdg6VLkgxUpvz8JOFhmZ8H7z1%2FFDfRQN9MiW1ZlhmhwjVB%2Ff0839ce3-345b-45d2-81e5-0adccda17c29.png?alt=media&token=8afd4ea9-38ee-4abe-95b0-a9db78513b30","id":"f0839ce3-345b-45d2-81e5-0adccda17c29","width":1097,"height":59,"filename":"image.png","type":"image/png","caption":"","border":false}]}
```

Then I updated my ENS domain with the contact hash as per below (note this step requires gas. I recommend making a bunch of changes all in one go to save on gas)

```cv
gallery
{"layout":"hscroll","images":[{"src":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/maitake-project.appspot.com/o/pages%2FoTrcdg6VLkgxUpvz8JOFhmZ8H7z1%2FFDfRQN9MiW1ZlhmhwjVB%2F786c35b8-ffd2-47b8-acd1-454677e77860.png?alt=media&token=41e823f0-549d-4f35-b47b-16fa2ca8be1f","id":"786c35b8-ffd2-47b8-acd1-454677e77860","width":826,"height":89,"filename":"image.png","type":"image/png","caption":"","border":false}]}
```

Once that transaction completed (checking on etherscan) when I navigate to [jamesmcardle.eth.limo](http://jamesmcardle.eth.limo) my html file will trigger and navigate to [jamesmcardle.au](http://jamesmcardle.au).

Finally, the last step was to go to my domain settings and set a domain forward to my desired web2 host. In this case it's my read.cv profile, [jmcardle.read.cv](http://jmcardle.read.cv)

The beauty of this is that I can now just update my domain forward settings on my Google Domain without any need to adjust my ENS and incurring gas costs.

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