There is a lot of talk about hybrid these days when it comes to IT. For the past five years or so, the Hybrid Cloud has been a hot topic as organizations are now open to hosting their digital services and data beyond the walls of the datacenter perimeter. Recently, the new approach of managing […]
Today we released version 3.12 of our Cloud Availability Platform. Yes, it is true that version 3.11 never made it to production, so don’t worry about the minor version jump. It is intentional. This update includes a few bug fixes, new features and enhancements as well as back-end improvements that we’ve been working on for […]
There are a few steps involved to successfully export SSL certificates from Microsoft IIS. Essentially, it needs to be exported, run through openssl to separate the key from the cert and split into two files. The two files can then be loaded into the interface. If you already have a key and cert file because […]
This release focused heavily on back-end improvements, although some minor UI enhancements were also included. Below is an overview. Back-end Infrastructure Upgrades: Enhanced monitoring: Prior to this upgrade, our remote monitoring nodes would report the status of a device once every 60 seconds, but this would occasionally create unnecessary delays. For example, if a device was […]
The “failover after” setting (shown below) in the main Failover Pool configuration is the number of our cloud nodes (datacenters) that must see your server as DOWN before actually failing over. All of our datacenters monitor your servers all the time. This setting simply allows you to increase the reliability of the results before action […]
NOTE: This article covers obtaining the original client IP for logging purposes. If you need to obtain it for use in your code, check out this article. NOTE: Before implementing the steps below, we’ll assume you’ve enabled the “X-Forwarded-For” header pass-through. To do so, log into the management portal and edit your server(s). In the settings […]
One of Total Uptime’s largest assets is our global cloud platform, deployed in dozens of datacenters around the world with incredible cloud based routing capacity. This platform gives our customers the ability to control and route traffic between the client and the datacenter, in the middle of the Internet. As you can imagine, this provides a […]
Version 3.4 of our Cloud Platform was released on March 16, 2014. It includes a significant number of new features and enhancements as well as bug fixes. Below is a complete rundown of the changes you’ll see today. New General System/Account Features: Password Reset: Previously, if a user forgot their password and did not have a […]
The similarities Both solutions require that you tell us what the IP address(es) are for your ‘real servers’. That way we know how to alter DNS or route traffic when one or more servers go up or down. These IP addresses must be publicly accessible, not private. Also, both solutions use the same type of […]
Today we turned up additional capacity for our DNS and Cloud Networking platform in the United Kingdom. The datacenter near Portsmouth in Havant at the Langstone Technology Park provides valuable capacity and redundancy for U.K. customers. It backs up our London and Amsterdam nodes and ensures European customers receive superior connectivity and redundancy to our […]