Here is a Quick Start video showing you how to quickly set up an initial configuration for Cloud DNS Failover in our web-based management console. Learn how to create a new Failover Pool, add two servers to it with a PING test monitor and assign it to an existing ‘A’ record within an existing […]
Yes, our DNS failover service was designed to easily support manual failover. Often customers wish to test their failover site on a periodic basis, or they wish to redirect traffic during a maintenance window. To do this within the portal, open up the Failover Entry, and simply uncheck the “Active” checkbox as shown below. This will immediately […]
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, they say. You should always have a plan B. Companies spend millions on their data connections, but even the best of them can fail. And what happens when you don’t have adequate backup systems in place? Well, take a look at our survey of outages in 2018 […]
Controlling traffic is a key facet of internet management. Sometimes primary connections will go down. Or too much traffic may cause congested links or overwhelmed devices to become unusable. We wrote about the implementation of load balancing in the cloud in a 2017 blog post. When people think of load balancing, they usually think about traffic that […]
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 […]
Method: DELETE URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId}/entry/{FailoverPoolId} This method deletes the failover pool entry specified by the id in the URI
Method: PUT URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId}/entry/{FailoverPoolEntryId} This method modifies an existing failover pool entry. It requires at least one field listed in the Create Failover Pool Entry method outlined above in order to invoke a change.
Method: GET URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId}/entry/ALL?{options} This method will return all failover pool entries within the specified pool id, if they exist. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a query […]
Method: POST URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId}/entry This method creates a new failover pool entry (that is, a device or server within the pool). It requires that the following information be posted in order to successfully create the domain: Field Sample data […]
Method: DELETE URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId} This method deletes the failover pool specified by the id in the URI