Secondary DNS – A Viable Backup Solution?

With GoDaddy’s unfortunate DNS outage on September 10th, we received an enormous number of inquiries about our DNS services. A frequently asked question was whether or not Total Uptime could provide secondary or backup DNS services for disaster recovery. The quick answer is “yes”, we can definitely provide this commonly implemented DNS backup solution, but we thought […]

Version 3.1.1 of our Cloud Platform released

Version 3.1.1 of our Cloud Platform was released today which includes a long list of little bugs and features we’ve wanted to push out for a long time. Now that these are out of the way, we can focus on the bigger features our customers’ have been asking for. Dashboard: We added an announcement section so […]

What is IP Anycast, and How Does it Work in the Cloud?

 One of the most important aspects of the Total Uptime Cloud Platform is the underlying IP Anycast architecture. Without it, we would not be able to deliver a 100% uptime SLA and the level of performance our customer’s demand. In this article, we’ll explain what IP Anycast is (just called “Anycast”) and how we […]

Why a Web Application Firewall

IT managers are faced with many difficult decisions today. The demands of performance, security, and economics are difficult to reconcile, and are only getting more challenging with the increasing number and complexity of internet attacks. Another challenge that we are dealing with is the explosive growth of Web 2.0 applications, such as social media, blogs, […]