How do I create an Alert List to notify me when a server is up or down?

Our DNS Failover monitoring and Cloud Networking solutions (e.g. Load Balancing, firewall) have the ability to send email alerts when devices go up or down. In order to create an alert list and assign it to your failover pool, follow these steps: Go to the ACCOUNT link in the upper-right corner of the management portal. […]

Why are the DDoS Statistics Always Blank?

If you’ve gone to the NETWORKING > DoS/DDoS tab and haven’t seen any data, consider that a good thing! This means you haven’t received any attack traffic. By default the DoS/DDoS tab will show stats for the last 7 days, but you can easily adjust the time range drop-down to one year to see if […]

Cloud Platform Release v21.9.0

Our team spent the summer working on a number of significant improvements to our cloud platform to make it more intuitive and easier to use every day. Below is a summary of what we released today. DNSSEC: We’ve further automated DNSSEC signing. You can easily choose the DNSSEC parameters for your zone, and within a […]

Update Port Options

Method:              PUT URI:                      /ALF/Pac/{portId}/UpdateOption This method updates the options associated with a port in the pack. Parameter Data Type ClinentIdleTimtOut “string” EnableHTTPToHTTPs Boolean (true/false) InsertHTTPIPPortInsertion Boolean (true/false) InsertHTPIPPOrtHeader “string” EnableSessionReuse Boolean (true/false) SSLClientIdleTimeOut Boolean (true/false) SendCloseNotify Boolean (true/false) SNIEnable Boolean (true/false) SNIAttached Boolean (true/false) SSLv3 […]

Protocol Anomaly Detection

It’s late at night and you’re walking to your car after attending a community event. Your car is still a block away. As you walk, you scan the scene before you. Something is just not right, you say to yourself. On the dark sidewalk ahead of you, you see two silhouettes. They are moving about, […]

Selecting the Right Monitors for Your Website

Suppose you’ve just launched a new website and you want to make sure that everything keeps working fine. What’s the next step? You could just hope and pray, but there is merit to being more proactive than that. The responsible thing to do is to monitor your website, including all the critical pages, services, and […]

Device Status Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! The Server Status tab displays a history of UP and DOWN status events for devices that are part of DNS Failover Pool and/or are used in Networking (e.g. Cloud Load Balancing, Firewall, etc.) Every time a […]

Resource Record Types

Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]

Domains Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to the Cloud DNS service will see the Cloud DNS main tab and this domains sub-tab. There are four main sections as shown above: 1. Main Toolbar The main toolbar is used to […]