Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to Cloud DNS Failover (included in the Professional, Premium & Enterprise packages) will have access to the MONITORS tab, as shown in the image below. Monitors do not work on their own, but […]
Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]
Total Uptime provides a comprehensive API that gives access to every aspect of our platform including products such as Cloud DNS and Networking Solutions as well as Account and product management features. The API is built using RESTful principles. XML and JSON are supported as responses to API calls. The current API version is 2.0, […]
Yes, we sure do. This fairly recent extension of the TLS protocol allows you to indicate which hostname is being contacted by the browser at the beginning of the handshake process. This allows a server to connect multiple SSL Certificates to one IP address and load the correct site or application for the user. Previously […]
Today we released another update to our cloud platform. Our latest update includes additional SSL enhancements as well as back-end improvements to the way we monitor customer devices and route traffic around congestion on the Internet. Here are the most notable changes and bug fixes in this version: General System/Account Changes: User Primary Email: We […]
Today we released another update to our cloud platform. Our March update includes a significant improvement to SSL including support for TLS 1.2 on the back-end network. In the coming months we will slowly phase out SSLv3 support due to known vulnerabilities. We’ve already been working with clients who require SSLv3 support for legacy applications, […]
Dealing with a DNS cache is probably the largest challenge of a DNS failover service. Even when setting the TTL for your ‘A’ record to a very low number, certain ISPs or networks just like to ignore those TTLs and elect to set the cache for a value that they deem appropriate. AOL is a prime […]
DNS queries (calculated on a monthly basis) are essentially “hits” to our name servers for your domain. A number of factors dictate how many queries you can expect. For example, how many other DNS servers cache the retrieved records. This is also dictated by the TTL (time to live) setting you have specified as well. […]