The Total Uptime Cloud Platform supports a variety of different protocols for use with the Cloud Load Balancer, Web Application Firewall and other networking solutions. These protocols were created to support additional features and functionality, usually at Layer 7, way beyond the standard TCP and UDP protocols also offered. Before you add a port/protocol combination, […]
After a few months of hard work, our development team is pleased to release version 24.5.3 that introduces a couple new features and fixes a few of bugs. Below are the details! DNS ANAME: This functionality has been requested for a long time and now allows you to create what is equivalent to a CNAME […]
Enabling HTTP/2 support is quite easy in the Total Uptime ADC-as-a-Service platform. In fact, if you’ve deployed SSL within the last few years, then HTTP/2 support is probably already active and ready to go on your packs in addition to HTTP/1.1. In this article we’ll discuss a little bit about the history and benefits of […]
The ADC-as-a-Service fully supports WebSockets. WebSocket support is configurable in both the public facing and back-end device settings dialogs. You will need to enable it in both locations for it to pass through to your device(s) correctly. Skip on down where we provide screenshots of exactly where you can find these settings in the panel. […]
Occasionally certain applications that proxy through the ADC-as-a-Service platform will encounter timeout issues. This happens primarily with long-lived connections, such as file downloads over http (TCP port 80) or https (TCP port 443) as well as SSH or SFTP connections, typically over TCP port 22. Solving these timeout issues is generally pretty simple, but diagnosing […]
Our development team spent the last several weeks working hard to knock out a number of annoying bugs and enhancing features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We think you’ll like what you see! New Rate Limiting Feature: We added a highly sought-after feature to ADC-as-a-Service […]
Imagine that you are a data packet. You have information to deliver, and you’re anxious to get started. Here you are at your source network device, and you look out on the vast network of switches, routers, and other machines. But where do you go? You look down and see that you’ve been given a […]
Internet technology continues to change at a rapid pace, but the fundamentals are the same. Most networks are still using TCP/IP. Networks are designed and analyzed using protocol stacks. And data packet switching is still the lifeblood of the network. In this post, we take a look at some fundamental concepts in networking that the […]
What is external monitoring? In a general sense, it means regularly checking on something to find out what is happening. It’s a way to gather information. In a large network, it means observing and recording data from a wide variety of devices and applications. We should clarify that monitoring and management are not the same […]
Unless your job encompasses application availability or delivery, you may not be aware of what load balancing is, what it does, or whether it is even a necessary component. As to the last part of that statement, the answer is simple: It is absolutely necessary. In today’s demanding online world, load balancing helps to ensure […]