How to Implement Connection Rate Limiting

Total Uptime offers an array of granular connection rate limiting options to protect almost any application type. Our advanced rate limit options can protect you at layer 7 to ensure your applications are always available to legitimate users. Best of all, it can be customized on a per-port basis. Rate limiting is available for ADC-as-a-Service […]

Cloud Platform Release v21.3.0

Our development team spent the last several weeks working hard to knock out a number of annoying bugs and enhancing features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We think you’ll like what you see! New Rate Limiting Feature: We added a highly sought-after feature to ADC-as-a-Service […]

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 […]

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 […]

Total Uptime Named Key Player in the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Market

Company Leads the Emerging Category in ADC MicroQuadrant ASHEVILLE, NC – Total Uptime™, the Enhanced Internet Delivery platform, announced that it has been recognized by MarketsandMarkets, the world’s largest revenue impact company, as leading the “Emerging” vendor category in the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market in its 2019 report. “Total Uptime … operates one of […]

Guess What? The Cloud Isn’t Perfect

A Mass Migration is Happening A few years ago, Gartner predicted that more than $1 trillion in IT spending would be directly impacted by the shift to cloud and that 25% of all software spending would shift to the cloud.  They stated that by 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a […]

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. 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 network management, there are several […]

Creating an Active-Active VPN Tunnel with BGP in AWS

In this article we will outline the steps required to create an active-active VPN tunnel with BGP dynamic routing between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Total Uptime Cloud Platform. By default, Total Uptime requires your devices (servers) to have internet-routable IPv4 or IPv6 addresses so we can direct traffic to them. By creating VPN […]