IT systems go down for a lot of reasons. Some downtime causes are obvious, while others take some time to understand. And still others are just plain comical. In this article we’ll have a look at different approaches to assigning blame for outages, and we’ll offer a short list of our own. The concept of downtime applies […]
No one needs to explain to you the virtues of being proactive. Of course, no one can make you (or this writer) do it either. You may know that you should change the timing belt on your car every 60,000 miles or so, but it’s even easier to do nothing about it — until your […]
Service providers do everything they know how to avoid downtime. Generally the best practice is not to touch a live network. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But change is inevitable, and eventually every network or system will need improvements. The trick is to handle these changes with little to no disruption of running […]
If you went to bestbuy.com and the site was unavailable, how long would it take for you to go to amazon.com or elsewhere to find what you wanted? On average, it’s less than 30 seconds; it used to be much longer, but our society has grown impatient. If you’re not available when customers are looking […]
Downtime is a dirty word in the IT business. Unplanned outages are unacceptable and should not be tolerated. In a universe where customers expect services to be available 99.999% of the time, any time your IT service offering is down is costly to your business. And the true cost of downtime may be more than […]
This is a question we receive often from customers wishing to migrate to the Total Uptime DNS platform. The simple answer is that DNS can easily be migrated without any downtime. But we understand that you probably want a little more information on exactly how we accomplish this, so we’re happy to oblige. First, you’ll want […]
The cost of datacenter downtime has increased more than 40% for many companies over the last 3 years, according to a recent study by Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Emerson Network Power. The report analyzes 67 datacenters during 2013 across a variety of different industries ranging in size from 2500 sq. ft to over 46,000 sq. […]
Method: PUT URI: /Monitor/DeviceMonitor/{monitorId} This method updates the load balancing profile. Field Data Type MonitorType “string” Name “string” Interval “string” IntervalUnit “string” ResponseTimeOut “string” ResponseTimeOutThreshold “string” DownTime “string” Deviation “string” Retries “string” SuccessRetries “string” FailureRetries “string” DestinationIP “string” DestinationPort “string” Action “string” CustomHeader “string” Enabled “string” […]
Method: POST URI: /Monitor/DeviceMonitor This method creates a new monitor. In order to successfully create the new monitor, the following parameters must be inputted: Field Data Type MonitorType “string” Name “string” Interval “string” IntervalUnit “string” ResponseTimeOut “string” ResponseTimeOutThreshold “string” DownTime “string” Deviation “string” Retries “string” SuccessRetries […]
Our star developers spent the last couple months working hard to knock out a couple annoying bugs and adding new features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We hope you like it! New Webhook Feature: We added an often requested feature called HTTP Webhooks that allows […]