Cloud Platform Release v21.3.0

Our development team spent the last several weeks working hard to knock out a number of annoying bugs and enhancing features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We think you’ll like what you see! New Rate Limiting Feature: We added a highly sought-after feature to ADC-as-a-Service […]

Anycast Hosting Made Easy

Total Uptime can make any device hosted in any cloud or data center anywhere anycast enabled in minutes! Even though we don’t offer infrastructure (servers, virtual machines etc.) directly, we give you the power to build the anycast hosting environment you want. Our ADC-as-a-Service plans each come with a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address (virtual […]

Do you offer Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)?

Yes, we definitely do, but we offer a more accurate modern version of GSLB. We have a pretty extensive GSLB blog post about our implementation and how you can achieve various proximity-based routing concepts in the Total Uptime panel. Traditional GSLB uses DNS to make routing decisions. That is, it uses an IP address table […]

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

What is it? And how can you implement it? SHORTCUT: If you just want to get to the part about configuring GSLB in the Total Uptime panel, skip to it here! Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) or GEO Load Balancing is in hot demand, perhaps now more than ever before. Placing content as close as […]

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 v20.6.0

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 […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.5.0

Our awesome development team has been stuck at home for the last several weeks due to COVID-19 and have worked very hard to add a lot of new functionality and address a few bugs. Below you’ll find a summary of the most important updates included in this version: GEO Weighting: We released a long awaited […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.3.0

To close out March, we have released a few things you’ve been asking for. Here are the details: Change Log Additions: We continue to increase the type and amount of data we capture for the change logs. In this release we added a long list of items to the logs specifically from the networking > […]

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 […]