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 […]
The DNS Failover Service determines a server is down based on the monitoring type you’ve selected and configured. For example, if you’ve created a PING monitor and assigned that to your server, as soon as it stops pinging and exceeds the test “interval” and “retries” values you’ve specified, it will be considered “down” and subject […]
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. […]
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 […]
Yes, absolutely! The Cloud Load Balancer supports a multitude of different monitoring types that you can create and assign to two of the different servers. Each server can be assigned a default monitor, or one or more custom monitors, and it can even be set to skip monitoring altogether, essentially forcing it to be up and online […]
Yes, absolutely! The DNS Failover service supports a multitude of different monitoring types that you can create and assign to two of the different servers in your failover pool. Each server can use a ‘global’ monitor you configure for the pool, a unique custom monitor, and it can even be set to skip monitoring altogether, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Today we released a number of updates to our platform. Below are the details of these exciting enhancements. DNS Zone/Domain Restoration Feature: A significant feature released with this update is the ability to restore entire domains or even specific records within a domain to their prior state. On occasion a user will accidentally delete a […]
Today we released cloud platform version 21.12.0 which includes a new WAN Optimization feature as well as a few bug fixes. Below is a list of the most notable changes you will find in this release. WAN Optimization: We released a new feature today to help improve network throughput across the ADC-as-a-Service platform where large […]