Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Exploits

JavaScript is a dandy programming language. And it’s very popular. A report from W3Techs shows that 94.7% of all websites surveyed used JavaScript. But it’s also vulnerable to a top web application hack called cross-site scripting (XSS). Unlike SQL injection, which targets the server side, XSS goes directly for unsuspecting web users. XSS injects malicious […]

Leading Causes of Downtime

IT systems go down for a lot of reasons. Some downtime causes are obvious, while others take some time to understand. And still others are just plain comical. In this article we’ll have a look at different approaches to assigning blame for outages, and we’ll offer a short list of our own. The concept of downtime applies […]

Internet Load Balancing and Failover for Multiple ISP Links

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 […]

Configuration Builder Tab

Manage and create Network Packs that can be configured with DNS easily and efficiently. The aim of these configurations is to provide you with an easy way to manage your virtual configurations, while providing excellent services such as Acceleration, Load Balancing, Firewall, and Instant Failover. Below you will find a brief description of this functionality, […]

Edit a company

To edit a company or a sub-company, select the company and click on the “edit” button. Company (*required) Edit the company’s name. Address 1 & 2 (*required) Edit the company’s street address in these fields. City (*required) Edit the company’s city. State/Province Edit the company’s state or province. Country Select the company’s Country from the […]

Add a sub-company

If you are a reseller, you can use this button to create a sub-company.  When you choose the “Add” option, you will see this screen to create your sub-company: Company (*required) Enter the sub-company’s name. Address 1 & 2 (*required) Enter your sub-company’s street address in these fields. City (*required) Enter your sub-company’s city. State/Province […]

Resource Record Types

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 […]

Domains Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to the Cloud DNS service will see the Cloud DNS main tab and this domains sub-tab. There are four main sections as shown above: 1. Main Toolbar The main toolbar is used to […]

Account Admin

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! This section covers the “account” link in the upper-right corner of the interface. It allows you to manage your company information, including contact information, authorized users and which roles they are assigned to.  You can purchase IP […]

The Advantages of Software Defined Storage

Companies across the globe are rapidly undergoing a digital transformation covering every aspect of their respected organizations, especially the enterprise.  This macro process has pushed IT leaders to migrate applications and data to the cloud as well as software defining their own on premise infrastructures.  This is being accomplished by incorporating the technology triad of […]