What is an Application Delivery Network?

Today’s networks are focused on results. It’s not enough to have active connections with no errors. Customers expect that IT management teams do their best to deliver the applications that are essential to the success of the enterprise. The goal is complete service assurance. The environment in which these efforts at faultless application delivery take […]

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 […]

Do you support CNAME Flattening?

Yes, we sure do! CNAME Flattening is a way of creating a CNAME at the apex or root of your domain where a regular CNAME is not supported per RFC. We accomplish letting you create a sort of “alias” at the root of your domain with a record type called ANAME. You can read more […]

Measuring Failure

If you are goal-oriented, you know how important it is to measure success. For network professionals, the goal is usually 99.999% availability (well, 100% in our world). But despite all the counsel we’ve heard about focusing on the positive, sometimes we need to take a closer look at what negative things may affect us. For […]

ANAME or ALIAS DNS Records are now supported

Now you can create a CNAME at the apex! We’ve avoided it for a long time because being RFC compliant is important to us. But due to overwhelming demand driven by clouds and CDNs (and ultimately, customers!), we finally released our ANAME record type. ANAME? ANAME stands for Alias Name and is very similar to […]

New feature: DNS Change Alerting

DNS Security starts with knowledge We recently released a new feature that will help DNS admins stay in the know. It helps by actively monitoring your DNS zone within the Total Uptime DNS platform and alerts you every time a change is made. For organizations with mission critical DNS, knowing when anyone has made a […]

Cloud Platform Release v24.5.3

After a few months of hard work, our development team is pleased to release version 24.5.3 that introduces a couple new features and fixes a few of bugs. Below are the details! DNS ANAME: This functionality has been requested for a long time and now allows you to create what is equivalent to a CNAME […]

Finding which pack is using a device

Q: How can I find out which packs my device/server is used in?  If you have a large number of packs or configs and use devices or servers in multiple packs, you may find it valuable to know which device is used in which pack. This can aid in understanding how deleting a device or […]

Do you offer MFA or 2FA for login protection?

Yes, we certainly do. We have a number of options to secure logins. Below are links to the main articles that cover this: Do you offer two factor / dual factor authentication? Enabling DUO with Total Uptime Okta, Azure AD and other options coming soon!  You’ve been asking and we’ve been working hard to integrate […]

Why are the DDoS Statistics Always Blank?

If you’ve gone to the NETWORKING > DoS/DDoS tab and haven’t seen any data, consider that a good thing! This means you haven’t received any attack traffic. By default the DoS/DDoS tab will show stats for the last 7 days, but you can easily adjust the time range drop-down to one year to see if […]