Knowledge Base
Yes, we definitely do, but we offer a more accurate modern version of GSLB. We have a pretty extensive GSLB blog post about our implementation and how you can achieve various proximity-based routing concepts in the Total Uptime panel. Traditional GSLB uses DNS to make routing decisions. That is, it uses an IP address table […]
View articleThe ADC-as-a-Service / Cloud Load Balancer does not send the X-Forwarded-Proto HTTP header. However, we have one of our own that will give you the information you’re looking for as well as the IP address the user connected on. So while it’s not exactly what you’re looking for, it gets the job done with a […]
View articleHere is a list of the ciphers in each group available for use in our networking tools. These are subject to change, so please check back periodically. Last updated June 27, 2019 As of 12/16/2019, to achieve a Grade A with the SSL Labs test, you need to choose cipher group High or MAX. Low […]
View articleIn this article we will outline the steps required to create an active-active VPN tunnel with BGP dynamic routing between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Total Uptime Cloud Platform. By default, Total Uptime requires your devices (servers) to have internet-routable IPv4 or IPv6 addresses so we can direct traffic to them. By creating VPN […]
View articleIn this article we will outline the steps required to create an active-active VPN tunnel with BGP dynamic routing between Microsoft Azure and the Total Uptime Cloud Platform. By default, Total Uptime requires your devices (servers) to have internet-routable IPv4 or IPv6 addresses so we can direct traffic to them. By creating VPN tunnels between […]
View articleWhen using an inline proxy like our ADC-as-a-Service or Web Application and API Protection service, you’ll often want to know the original client IP address for security, to track in your logs for stats or for other reasons. In our KB article entitled Getting the original client IP with X-Forwarded-For in your code, we’ve already discussed […]
View articleIf you’re attempting to create a certificate key-pair and have received the message shown below, there is usually one common remedy: The remedy is to run your key through OpenSSL using the RSA key processing tool to change it to the traditional SSLeay compatible format. And yes, to immediately answer our critics: we do support […]
View articleA question we frequently receive is: “How can I manually fail traffic over from my primary server to my failover server group in the Cloud Load Balancer?” Manually failing over traffic is something you may wish to do if your primary server is experiencing issues that the monitor has not yet detected, or if you […]
View articleIn the version 3.10 release of our cloud platform, we introduced support for creating back-end devices (servers) using a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) instead of an IP address. While it is always best to use an IP address instead of a domain name, there are some instances where a FQDN is the only option, […]
View articleIn our v3.10 release, we introduced a new Cloud Load Balancer feature called Overflow. This feature is designed to send traffic from your active server group to your failover server group when a certain connection threshold has been reached. This threshold can be configured globally to count connections being distributed to all of your servers, […]
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