Add Global Server Load Balancing to your Total Uptime Cloud DNS service to route users by geography, distribute traffic across locations and automatically redirect traffic when a site becomes unavailable.
Plans from $99/month.
✓ GEO routing per record
✓ Active/passive failover
✓ Active/active load balancing
✓ Managed DNS included
DNS-based GSLB makes the inter-site decision: which available site should this user be sent to? Combine geographic routing and health monitoring to build resilient multi-site and multi-region architectures without deploying GSLB appliances at every location.
Direct DNS requests to an appropriate site based on the user’s geographic location. Users in Europe can be directed to European infrastructure, while users in North America or APAC are directed to the appropriate regional locations.
Direct traffic to a primary site while health checks continuously monitor its availability. If the primary site becomes unavailable, DNS responses automatically switch to a configured standby location. When service is restored, traffic can return according to your failover policy.
Distribute DNS responses across multiple active sites. Health monitoring automatically removes an unavailable site from DNS responses and returns it when it becomes healthy again.
Traditional appliance-based GSLB can require redundant devices at multiple locations, along with the infrastructure, connectivity and operational overhead required to maintain them.
DNS-based GSLB moves the inter-site routing decision onto Total Uptime’s distributed DNS infrastructure.
There are no GSLB appliances to deploy at each location and your global routing layer isn’t dependent on the connectivity of an individual data center.
This makes DNS-based GSLB particularly well suited to organizations operating across multiple data centers, clouds or geographic regions.
Best for directing users between geographically distributed sites, clouds or regions using DNS.
Typical requirements include:
For environments requiring more advanced application and network traffic management, Total Uptime can provide GSLB using our ADC and network infrastructure.
This may be more appropriate where requirements extend beyond DNS decisions into application delivery or more sophisticated traffic management.
For organizations that need to operate GSLB infrastructure within their own environment, Total Uptime can also help design an on-premises approach.
First choose your Total Uptime Cloud DNS plan, then add the GSLB package that best fits your requirements. GSLB pricing is additional to your Cloud DNS subscription.
GSLB Essentials
GSLB Professional
GSLB Enterprise
Additional options are available where required, including:
Support multi-data-center resilience requirements without deploying dedicated GSLB appliance pairs at every site.
Direct customers to appropriate regional infrastructure while automatically responding to site or regional outages.
Route users across infrastructure in different cloud providers without making your global traffic management dependent on one of those providers.
Add DNS-based global traffic management to customer environments, with vanity name servers and white-label options available separately where required.
Total Uptime can work across existing cloud, data centre and hybrid infrastructure, allowing organisations to introduce global traffic management around the applications and infrastructure they already operate.
DDoS attacks mitigated across the internet in 2025, +121% year on year (Cloudflare). Your GSLB should live on infrastructure built for this, not behind a site link.
Appliance GSLB means buying, racking and maintaining a pair of devices at every site. Each pair answers DNS behind that site’s own connectivity, so a DDoS attack that saturates a 1–10Gb link takes your traffic manager down with it, exactly when you need it most.
GSLB-as-a-service moves the decision point onto a global anycast DNS network built to absorb attack traffic every day. There is no box to patch, no pair to fail over, and nothing at your sites that can be knocked offline.
Mid-market GSLB has been stuck between six-figure appliance projects and quote-only enterprise DNS suites. There’s a third option.
We’re here whenever you need us. Whether by phone, email or chat, you’ll speak to experienced engineers who understand your environment and are focused on solving your problem, not just logging a ticket.
Need help getting started? We’ll happily walk you through setup over a screen share, even during your free trial. Try asking AWS or Azure for that.
“Total Uptime support staff was always ready and willing to help within minutes” – John Dullaghan, Director, Product Operations – Informatica
Real organisations. Real resilience. Real results.
Whether you need simple DNS failover, geographic traffic routing, multi-region resilience or a more advanced ADC-based GSLB architecture, we’ll help determine the right approach. Start with Total Uptime Cloud DNS and add the GSLB capabilities your environment actually needs.