When implementing a failover solution, the most common questions we receive are: How can we architect a failover solution for our application? How quickly can we failover from the primary site to the secondary site? How quickly can it fail back when the primary comes back online? Is there a way to prevent automatic failback […]
Over the years, DNS Failover has become a very popular service primarily due to the fact that it is relatively inexpensive and fairly easy to deploy and manage. But is it the right solution for your organization? In this article, we’ll outline what DNS failover is and provide an overview of the benefits and appropriate uses for […]
ADCaaS / Load Balancing · Cloud DNS · WAAP / WAF / Firewall
Watch this video to understand the functionality found in the Account section of the Total Uptime cloud management portal. Here you’ll learn how to modify company information, add/edit and delete users, create roles & security groupings, alert lists and much more.
Here is a Quick Start video showing you how to quickly set up an initial configuration for Cloud DNS Failover in our web-based management console. Learn how to create a new Failover Pool, add two servers to it with a PING test monitor and assign it to an existing ‘A’ record within an existing […]
ADCaaS / Load Balancing · Cloud DNS · WAAP / WAF / Firewall
One of the most important aspects of the Total Uptime Cloud Platform is the underlying IP Anycast architecture. Without it, we would not be able to deliver a 100% uptime SLA and the level of performance our customer’s demand. In this article, we’ll explain what IP Anycast is (just called “Anycast”) and how we use […]
DNS is the critical first link in a Website’s ability to load quickly for its users. Cloud solutions don’t mean much if your DNS system isn’t giving you great performance and the level of granulized control you need. High performance and granular control have always been focal points for our business here, and the existing demand […]
In the early days of the Internet, humans and other computers located the few massive interconnected computers the same way: by their numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Soon, the impracticality of memorizing all these numbers became obvious and a rudimentary naming scheme was developed. A central repository of names and their associated IP addresses was […]
You want to know what a DNS server is and what DNS does? Quite simply, DNS is what makes the Internet work. Seriously! Imagine going to Facebook by typing in the IP address in your browser. Obviously that’s not going to work. It’s not very memorable, and can you see people using IP addresses in […]
