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Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) 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. […]
Network Solutions DNS Outage
If you’re landing on this page because you suspect a Network Solutions DNS outage today, you might be right. Probably best to check their official Twitter account to be sure. As soon as we have confirmation, we’ll post a note here. Sadly, the folks at Network Solutions have had a few DNS outages already in […]
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.
The importance of an audit trail – tracking DNS changes
In our most recent cloud platform update, we added a new feature that gives our customers an audit trail of every DNS change that has been made. We’ve appropriately called it the “Change Log”. This long-anticipated feature can be found in its own tab in the Account section of the management interface. What the change […]
Round Robin DNS Load Balancing
Round Robin DNS is a fast, simple and cost effective way to load balance or distribute traffic evenly over multiple servers or devices. Total Uptime Cloud DNS fully supports round robin DNS on all record types except CNAME. DNS allows you to create multiple records with the same host name but a different destination. By doing so, […]
How DNS Failover Works – an Infographic
Want to quickly understand how DNS Failover works? We’ve created an 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.)
DDNS – Dynamic DNS Service – Hype?
It seems there is a lot of demand for DDNS – Dynamic DNS Service. If you pop “DDNS” into Google, you’ll be surprised with the listing of articles you’ll find (including a Wikipedia one) describing what dynamic DNS is and how it can be beneficial to you when hosting servers behind IP addresses that frequently and […]
A Hosted DNS Server Service – Is it right for you?
Running a high-availability hosted DNS Server Service is not a trivial task. DNS is vital to the operation and success of the Internet yet it is an often-overlooked component that is usually taken for granted. What seems so simple on the surface can create so many issues when it malfunctions. Using a Free DNS Service Most small […]
IT DRP – What is your IT Disaster Recovery Plan for DNS?
When designing an IT DRP (Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan), businesses need to seriously consider the services that they offer internally and externally in order to determine which are the most important to the success of their organization. Rather than taking the approach of “everything must remain online”, which can be extremely costly and oftentimes […]