Network Failover / High Availability
Automatically redirect traffic to an alternate IP address, server or entire data center
Automatically redirect traffic to an alternate IP address, server or entire data center
There are numerous load balancing algorithms employed by the Total Uptime Cloud Platform to determine which service to select for the redirection of client requests. Getting to know more about each will help in choosing the best method for your load balancing needs. Where to find the setting in the panel Methods Least Connection When […]
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 […]
Today we released version 18.1.0 of our cloud platform after many months of hard work on our part, and anticipation on yours. While there are over 120 bug fixes, feature enhancements and changes, the biggest change you will see is the new skin. It was time to update the look and feel of the UI, […]
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 […]
Method: POST URI: /CloudDNS/Domain/{domainID}/{recordType} This method adds a record to an existing domain. It requires the following information to be posted in order to successfully create the record: For ‘A’ Records URI {recordType} value: “ARecord” Field Sample data aHostName “www” […]
Everyone in the IT business has heard of load balancing, but many don’t know much about it. Even technology professionals who are familiar with the concept may know little about how it works. A brief introduction to the subject of load balancing and its development will help to round out our IT education. Why Load […]
“The website is down again!” That can be pretty frustrating. In the heat of the moment, most of us don’t really care why it is down — we just want back online. But the curious user may want to know more. What could make a web server unreachable? Why do they go down in the […]
Keeping up with the pace of ever the changing world of IT today is a challenge. It can be like trying to drink from a fire hydrant. You can drown in the overwhelming constant barrage of information and technological advancement. For that reason, it is not unusual for today’s IT managers to be unfamiliar with […]
All over the world, companies are competing with one another in the race towards digital transformation. According to a report by Gartner in 2016, one-half of all CEO’s expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognizably transformed by digital transformation. It is a recurrent digital evolutionary process of embedding technologies into nearly everything around us […]