How to create a DMARC record

What is a DMARC record? DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance. A DMARC record tells email servers/receivers what the domain owner’s policy is regarding non-compliant email. For example, if your email is missing an SPF record or a DKIM record, should they allow it through, quarantine it or reject it. This is […]

Can I upload a PFX certificate file?

What is a PFX Certificate file? A PFX certificate file, also known as PKCS #12, is a combined file that contains the server certificate, intermediate certificate as well as the matching private key and is password protected. These files are typically used on Windows systems and if you already have a certificate and key on […]

Cloud Platform Release v21.3.0

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 […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.12.0

Between November 25th and and December 29th platform updates are placed on hold in order to minimize any impact to customers who rely on the holiday season for a significant portion of their revenue. So November and the vast majority of December didn’t see any significant changes released. But we were still working hard behind-the-scenes […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.6.0

Our June 2020 Cloud Platform Release contains a significant number of back-end and other unseen updates to improve the performance and resiliency of our global DNS and ADC-as-a-Service platform. Below you’ll find a summary of the most important updates included in this version: Route Optimization Control: We released UI controls for a new Route Optimization […]

Cloud Platform Release v19.7.0

Today we released minor version 19.7.0 of our cloud platform. This release includes a few bug fixes, back-end improvements plus a few new features and enhancements. We hope you like them! Change Log: We continue to enhance the change log to capture more and more information from different parts of the panel. This is an […]

How to create an SPF record

What is SPF? Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a protocol designed to help combat forged email. It allows the owner of a domain to specify which hosts are authorized to send email from that domain. Full details can be found in RFC 7208. How does SPF work? Domain owners publish SPF records in the Domain […]

Import/Export Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! The Import / Export tab within Cloud DNS allows you to easily bulk-add new domains to the platform, as well as export domains (currently one-by-one) in a traditional text file format for easy backup or for […]

Resource Record Types

Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]