New feature: DNS Change Alerting 
Notable Network and Cloud Outages of 2021 
Anycast Hosting Made Easy What are the key differences between DNS FAILOVER and CLOUD FAILOVER so I can better understand which one is right for my application?
The similarities Both solutions require that you tell us what the IP address(es) are for your ‘real servers’. That way we know how to alter DNS or route traffic when one or more servers go up or down. These IP addresses must be publicly accessible, not private. Also, both solutions use the same type of […]
Google and Amazon reveal their secrets of scalability. What is yours?
We read an interesting article recently published in IT World entitled Google, Amazon reveal their secrets of scalability. Joab Jackson, who wrote the article, provides information received at various talks by Google and Amazon on how they engineer their IT infrastructure for scale. One of the key strategies used by Google was doing things on the […]
Microsoft releases Windows Azure Traffic Manager
I came across an interesting article recently at IT World entitled Microsoft adds load balancing as Azure availability stutters. The unfortunate part of the story is that Azure storage and SQL services suffered a 1 hour outage at all regions, but the positive news was that Microsoft is trying to catch up to Amazon Web Services […]
Load Balancers – an important component for disaster recovery
We recently read, with great interest, an article in CIO entitled How load balancing is playing a bigger role in tech transitions. John Moore takes a real-world IT DR scenario, discussing traditional load balancers and today’s more sophisticated Application Delivery Controllers and how they are helping organizations implement disaster recovery strategies or generally increase application availability. […]
Creating active/passive Failover Configuration with Cloud Load Balancing
Are you looking to create an active/passive server failover configuration using our Cloud Load Balancer? It’s easier than you think. This video will walk you through the entire configuration process, taking a standard active/active load balancing scenario and changing it to active/passive, active/active/passive and even active/passive/passive with a tertiary failover group setup. Total Uptime […]
Creating and Managing Monitors
In this video we’ll dive deeper into monitors. Monitors are an essential component of our platform because they give you the power to accurately detect when your servers are up or down. This information is then used with Load Balancing or DNS Failover to properly route traffic.
How Cloud Load Balancing works – an Infographic
Want to quickly understand how Cloud Load Balancing works? We’ve created a nifty infographic that explains it in a few simple steps… plus a detailed look at our user interface. (Click on the image to enlarge it, and then click to expand it.)
What Should and Should Not be called Cloud?
We read a great article last month on wired.com called Top 5 Things The Cloud Is Not. It’s rare we see an article like this that helps define what should and should not be called ‘Cloud’, so when we do see something, we like to call attention to it. The author, Peder Ulander, clearly lists 5 […]
Account Management – A Quick Start Video
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.
Cloud Load Balancing user interface – a Quick Start Video
Here is a Quick Start video showing you how to quickly set up an initial configuration for Cloud Load Balancing in our web-based management console. Learn how to create a new Pack configuration with a Default Server Group and two web servers. Add a ping monitor to test server availability and configure load balancing using […]