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Your DNS may be in the same failure domain as your CDN or Cloud Provider

Your DNS may be in the same failure domain as your CDN or Cloud Provider    You have redundant servers. Multiple availability zones. Health checks. A CDN. A WAF. Perhaps even a second cloud region ready to take traffic.  But there is a question that is surprisingly easy to overlook:    Who runs your DNS?    If the answer is […]

Nadet Rautenbach

Blogs

Instant Disaster Recovery IP Failover

Instant Disaster Recovery: Move Your Applications Without Changing a Single IP Disaster recovery has quietly become a compliance problem as much as a technical one. Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), in force since January 2025, financial entities must demonstrate and test their ability to withstand and recover from ICT disruption, with business […]

Greg Howett

Blogs

The static IP that doesn’t break when your ISP does

The static IP that doesn’t break when your ISP does Ask any IT manager what happens when their primary internet provider goes down, and you’ll usually hear the same reassuring answer: “We have a second ISP.” It sounds like resilience. In practice, for anything that depends on a fixed IP address, it often isn’t resilience […]

Greg Howett

ADCaaS / Load Balancing

What is an Application Delivery Network?

Today’s networks are focused on results. It’s not enough to have active connections with no errors. Customers expect that IT management teams do their best to deliver the applications that are essential to the success of the enterprise. The goal is complete service assurance. The environment in which these efforts at faultless application delivery take […]

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ADCaaS / Load Balancing

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

What is it? And how can you implement it? SHORTCUT: If you just want to get to the part about configuring GSLB in the Total Uptime panel, skip to it here! Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) or GEO Load Balancing is in hot demand, perhaps now more than ever before. Placing content as close as […]

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Availability

Measuring Failure

If you are goal-oriented, you know how important it is to measure success. For network professionals, the goal is usually 99.999% availability (well, 100% in our world). But despite all the counsel we’ve heard about focusing on the positive, sometimes we need to take a closer look at what negative things may affect us. For […]

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Cloud DNS

New feature: DNS Change Alerting

DNS Security starts with knowledge We recently released a new feature that will help DNS admins stay in the know. It helps by actively monitoring your DNS zone within the Total Uptime DNS platform and alerts you every time a change is made. For organizations with mission critical DNS, knowing when anyone has made a […]

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Outages

Notable Network and Cloud Outages of 2021

There are hundreds of cloud and network provider outages every week, more than anyone ever realizes. To help convey the sheer volume of cloud provider and network provider outages, we’ve compiled this running post of the most notable ones in 2021 so far with a primary focus on North American providers, but coverage across the […]

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ADCaaS / Load Balancing

Anycast Hosting Made Easy

Total Uptime can make any device hosted in any cloud or data center anywhere anycast enabled in minutes! Even though we don’t offer infrastructure (servers, virtual machines etc.) directly, we give you the power to build the anycast hosting environment you want. Our ADC-as-a-Service plans each come with a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address (virtual […]

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Cloud DNS

How Does DNS Failover Work?

Total Uptime’s DNS Failover automation is a powerful way of increasing availability for any type of web-based service or application that is accessible via multiple IP addresses. Some examples include: An application behind two or more different ISP links Two or more servers at the same or different sites Two or more cloud or hosting […]

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