Free DNS vs. Managed DNS: The Real Cost of “Good Enough” If your DNS came bundled with your domain registration, or you pointed your nameservers at Cloudflare’s free plan years ago and haven’t thought much about it since, you’re certainly not alone. For many small and mid-sized businesses, DNS feels like a problem that has […]
The World’s Biggest DNS Outages: What Actually Caused Them and How to Avoid Being Next When a major online service suddenly disappears, the first assumption is often that someone is attacking it. Sometimes that is exactly what happened. The Dyn outage in 2016 is a good example. But look at the post-mortems from some […]
Why DNS is the most underestimated single point of failure in your infrastructure If you are responsible for infrastructure at a midsize enterprise, you have probably spent a considerable amount of time and money removing single points of failure. Workloads may be distributed across multiple data centers or availability zones. Databases are replicated. Network and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
