Creating a Maintenance Page for Site Uptime

There are times when your website must be taken down for routine maintenance or, in the event of a catastrophic failure of all your servers, must be restored from backup. In either event, a maintenance page is necessary to inform your customers of the reason the site is down and when you expect it to […]

Search for a Maintenance Window

If you find yourself with many Maintenance Windows and are challenged with locating a specific Maintenance Window to view, you can find it by using the “Search” button. Select the FIELD you’d like to search in the first box, HOW to search in the second box and enter the string you’d like to search FOR […]

Add Maintenance Window

Company:  Select a company or sub-company from the drop down window that the Maintenance Window will be affect.  This will determine which Alert Lists you see in the following windows. Name*:  (*required)  Choose a name for your Maintenance window and type it in here. Alert List(s)*:  (*required)  Select which Alert Lists this Maintenance Window will affect.  […]

Proactive IT Maintenance to Minimize Downtime

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 […]

What are your network or datacenter maintenance windows?

We do not have any specific network or datacenter maintenance windows. Avoiding downtime on our global Cloud Platform is our highest priority, so we always make every effort to perform maintenance in such a way as to prevent customer impact.  That’s why you rarely receive datacenter maintenance notifications from us. In most cases, we can […]

Finding which pack is using a device

Q: How can I find out which packs my device/server is used in?  If you have a large number of packs or configs and use devices or servers in multiple packs, you may find it valuable to know which device is used in which pack. This can aid in understanding how deleting a device or […]

Notable Network and Cloud Outages of 2021

There are hundreds of cloud and network provider outages every week, more than anyone ever realizes. To help convey the sheer volume of cloud provider and network provider outages, we’ve compiled this running post of the most notable ones in 2021 so far with a primary focus on North American providers, but coverage across the […]

Cloud Platform Release v21.3.0

Our development team spent the last several weeks working hard to knock out a number of annoying bugs and enhancing features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We think you’ll like what you see! New Rate Limiting Feature: We added a highly sought-after feature to ADC-as-a-Service […]

Anycast Hosting Made Easy

Total Uptime can make any device hosted in any cloud or data center anywhere anycast enabled in minutes! Even though we don’t offer infrastructure (servers, virtual machines etc.) directly, we give you the power to build the anycast hosting environment you want. Our ADC-as-a-Service plans each come with a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address (virtual […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.7.0

Our July release includes the following bug fixes, new features as well as enhancements. Caching & Optimization – Route Optimization: We released further updates to our new Route Optimization feature allowing customers to choose between the default Hot Potato routing or Cold Potato alternative for improved performance across the Total Uptime backbone. Trial Platform: We […]