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 […]

How Does DNS Failover Work?

Total Uptime’s DNS Failover automation is a powerful way of increasing availability for any type of web-based service or application that is accessible via multiple IP addresses. Some examples include: An application behind two or more different ISP links Two or more servers at the same or different sites Two or more cloud or hosting […]

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 v20.10.0

In this release we addressed a number of pesky bugs and made a number of back-end improvements to ensure reliability. Below is a list of some of the more significant changes. Force Zone Transfer Button: Inside of secondary zones is a button to “Force Zone Transfer” that has been there for a number of years. […]

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 […]

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 v20.5.0

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 v20.4.1

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 v20.4.0

To kick off April, we thought we’d release a small update to the connections tab in the Networking section. This tab provides a snapshot of connections hitting your application every 5 minutes. While this works quite nicely for busy applications, it doesn’t always work very well for testing prior to sending production traffic. This is […]

Cloud Platform Release v20.3.1

We just couldn’t wait til April to get a new feature and a couple bug fixes out, so even though we said our 20.3.0 release was the last one of the month, we stand corrected, and I’m sure you won’t mind. Here are the details: Swagger Support: Customers who use our API will be very […]