Notable Cloud Outages of 2020

Periodically we talk to someone who says something along the lines of: “we don’t need Total Uptime since we moved to the cloud.” A most interesting statement that is simply the result of someone misinformed about the benefits and capabilities of cloud. Does the cloud provide incredible flexibility? Yes! Does it let you provision services […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.9.0

September’s release includes the usual bug fixes (many of which we do not list since they are minor, and often customer’s haven’t found them yet) plus other features and enhancements. Here are the major items included in this code update. Dashboard Widget Values: We corrected a bug for the dashboard widgets where they would occasionally […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.8.0

Our August release is packed with new features and functionality as well as the usual array of minor bug fixes. The complete list of changes included are detailed below. Back-end Updating: Further to our release last month, we have updated the UI to display an improved updating progress bar. Now, when changes are made via […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.6.0

Our June 2020 Cloud Platform Release contains a significant number of back-end and other unseen updates to improve the performance and resiliency of our global DNS and ADC-as-a-Service platform. Below you’ll find a summary of the most important updates included in this version: Route Optimization Control: We released UI controls for a new Route Optimization […]

Total Uptime Successfully Completes 4th Consecutive SOC2 Type 2

Attestation confirms the company’s commitment to unprecedented availability ASHEVILLE, NC – June 12, 2020 – Total Uptime® announced today that it successfully completed its fourth consecutive SOC 2 Type 2 attestation highlighting the company’s continued commitment to security, availability and confidentiality. The certification further validates the resiliency and operational excellence of Total Uptime’s global cloud […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.4.1

Today we rolled out a few (hidden) beta features for our billing and subscription system. But fear not, we’ve included three fixes you can actually see too. Here are the details: Subscriptions and Payments: As we mentioned in our first release of the year in January, we’re working on a very comprehensive invoicing, payments and […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.2.0

It’s been a cold February so we’ve been confined indoors and stuck on our computers working hard to bring new features and functionality to our platform. To close out February, we have released a few things you’ve been asking for. Here are the details: Canvas vs. Table: Networking customers (Load Balancer, WAF etc.) may have […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.1.0

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 […]

Guess What? The Cloud Isn’t Perfect

A Mass Migration is Happening A few years ago, Gartner predicted that more than $1 trillion in IT spending would be directly impacted by the shift to cloud and that 25% of all software spending would shift to the cloud.  They stated that by 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a […]

Measuring Failure

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 […]