There are a few steps involved to successfully export SSL certificates from Microsoft IIS. Essentially, it needs to be exported, run through openssl to separate the key from the cert and split into two files. The two files can then be loaded into the interface. If you already have a key and cert file because […]
On occasion we receive a request seeking assistance creating monitors to determine the availability of Microsoft Exchange, such as Internet-facing ActiveSync or OWA. After helping many customers, we have determined what works well, and what doesn’t work at all. Here are our tried and true suggestions for reliably monitoring your Exchange environment. Exchange 2013, 2016 […]
When the Cloud Load Balancer or WAF connects to your server or device to send traffic, it typically uses a proxy IP address tied to that region. This is by design to ensure that return traffic comes back through that region so it can be sent back to the end-user/client while maintaining session management/state awareness, […]
If you have a Windows machine, temporarily adding a line to the hosts file is the easiest way to test a DNS change before actually making it live. This article outlines the steps you can perform to test. The location of the Hosts file can usually be found in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\ where %systemroot% is usually C:\windows, […]
Yes, the Total Uptime cloud load balancer can distribute traffic to traditional FTP servers. To properly configure FTP for the highest possible throughput, there are only a few steps you need to follow. Configure your server to allow all TCP traffic from our load balancer IP addresses. You can find a list of IP addresses […]
The quick answer: Sorry, this is not yet possible. We receive requests on occasion where users have limited public IP space and have worked around that by placing different servers behind the same IP, but using different ports. For example, Server A might have the IP 1.2.3.4 with a service on port 81. Server B […]
The quick answer is that some sort of SSL certificate must be installed on your server(s) if you are not going to perform SSL Offload and want to maintain end-to-end encryption. But this doesn’t have to be the same SSL cert you install in the load balancer if you don’t want. It can be, and […]
Yes, this is absolutely possible, and recommended! To accomplish this, you will need to configure the “protocol” as SSL and map it also to SSL on your servers (both probably on port 443). This ensures SSL is maintained between the client and your servers, while still allowing you to take advantage of our SSL acceleration, […]
Yes, absolutely. There are no issues using their SSL certificates on our platform for Load Balancing or the Web Application Firewall. In fact, we already have the Let’s Encrypt Authority Intermediate certificate loaded into our repository and ready for your use. You can upload certificates manually through our UI, or you can automate/script the entire […]
Yes, we sure do. This fairly recent extension of the TLS protocol allows you to indicate which hostname is being contacted by the browser at the beginning of the handshake process. This allows a server to connect multiple SSL Certificates to one IP address and load the correct site or application for the user. Previously […]