Modify an Existing Failover Pool

Method:              PUT URI:                      /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId} This method modifies an existing failover pool. It requires at least one field listed in the Create Failover Pool method outlined above in order to invoke a change.

Retrieve a Specific Failover Pool

Method:              GET URI:                      /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId} This method will return the failover pool specified by the id.

Retrieve All Failover Pools

Method:              GET URI:                      /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/IPv4/ALL?{options} URI:                      /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/IPv6/ALL?{options} This method will return all failover pools within the account for the specific IP type requested, including all sub-companies, if they exist. The […]

Create a New Failover Pool

Method:              POST URI:                      /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool This method creates a new failover pool. It requires that the following information be posted in order to successfully create the domain: Field Sample data Name e.g. “My first failover pool” IPType “ipv4” or “ipv6” […]

Cloud DNS

This is a comprehensive manual for the Cloud DNS service. Shown below is the dashboard you will see if you have a subscription to this product. Based on your subscription options, you may or may not see all of the sub-tabs shown below. Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the vast majority of […]

Enterprise DNS – Is it really that important?

Quick, name the most important server in your network – Web server? Active Directory server? Mail server?   Those are all important no doubt, but your DNS servers are probably the most critical to your network operations.  Imagine you were traveling within a foreign country you had never visited before and the area was totally […]

Multi Site Exchange DAG Failover – Solving WAN IP Availability

So you decided to deploy a high availability Microsoft Exchange environment.  You created a Database Availability Group for the databases on the Mailbox servers, carefully thought out the mailbox server roles and even deployed multiple Client Access Servers at two different sites with a nice WAN connection between them for timely synchronization. Your Exchange DR […]

8 uses for Cloud Load Balancing or Failover

As we talk to people during the week, we periodically make suggestions for using Cloud Load Balancing or Failover that are often met with surprise, such as “Oh, I didn’t know it could be used for that”. So we thought it might be helpful to compile a list of 8 potential uses. Of course, it […]

Load Balancing and Failover Between AWS Regions

Yes! It really is possible to distribute traffic between regions on AWS EC2. But only with Total Uptime’s Cloud Load Balancer. We frequently receive inquiries from organizations who use Amazon EC2 for compute, but want a more robust load balancer that can distribute or fail over traffic between different regions, not just availability zones.  Amazon […]

What should I configure the “Failover After” setting to?

The “failover after” setting (shown below) in the main Failover Pool configuration is the number of our cloud nodes (datacenters) that must see your server as DOWN before actually failing over. All of our datacenters monitor your servers all the time. This setting simply allows you to increase the reliability of the results before action […]