You can configure any monitor to test your server(s) as often as once per minute (the test “Interval”). Additionally, you can configure these parameters: Response Time-out (in seconds) – This is how long the monitor will wait for a particular test to come back positive or negative. Down Time (in seconds) – This is a […]
As a DNS service provider, we frequently receive requests from customers who need assistance with understanding and creating SPF records. This short article outlines a few helpful steps that will hopefully make life easier for some. First, what is an SPF record anyway? Well, Wikipedia sums it up nicely: SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is an email […]
Total Uptime offers an array of granular connection rate limiting options to protect almost any application type. Our advanced rate limit options can protect you at layer 7 to ensure your applications are always available to legitimate users. Best of all, it can be customized on a per-port basis. Rate limiting is available for ADC-as-a-Service […]
Occasionally certain applications that proxy through the ADC-as-a-Service platform will encounter timeout issues. This happens primarily with long-lived connections, such as file downloads over http (TCP port 80) or https (TCP port 443) as well as SSH or SFTP connections, typically over TCP port 22. Solving these timeout issues is generally pretty simple, but diagnosing […]
Yes, Total Uptime Cloud DNS fully supports Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). You can find the full details on DNSSEC Implementation here. What is DNSSEC? DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) is an enhancement to standard DNS which has been around for a long time. It enhances DNS by creating a secure chain of trust and […]
In this release we addressed a number of pesky bugs and made a number of back-end improvements to ensure reliability. Below is a list of some of the more significant changes. Force Zone Transfer Button: Inside of secondary zones is a button to “Force Zone Transfer” that has been there for a number of years. […]
To kick off April, we thought we’d release a small update to the connections tab in the Networking section. This tab provides a snapshot of connections hitting your application every 5 minutes. While this works quite nicely for busy applications, it doesn’t always work very well for testing prior to sending production traffic. This is […]
A new year brings three small changes. We thought we’d knock them out right away while everyone is off and start 2020 on the right foot. Here are the details: GEO Weighting bug: We resolved a bug where the GEO weighting settings would not properly save to the back-end when configured prior to publishing a […]
If you are goal-oriented, you know how important it is to measure success. For network professionals, the goal is usually 99.999% availability. But despite all the counsel we’ve heard about focusing on the positive, sometimes we need to take a closer look at what negative things may affect us. For network management, there are several […]
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 […]