There is a lot of talk about hybrid these days when it comes to IT. For the past five years or so, the Hybrid Cloud has been a hot topic as organizations are now open to hosting their digital services and data beyond the walls of the datacenter perimeter. Recently, the new approach of managing […]
If you are a network administrator, you really want to get a handle on your network. But even laymen sometimes need to figure out what’s going on. There are some basic tools that will help you do that. Let’s have a look at some simple pieces of software that can be accessed from nearly any […]
Roughly, a decade ago, VMware released their ESX virtual hosting platform that literally changed the datacenter, as we know it. It came at a time when datacenters were inundated with server sprawl as every new application request resulted in the purchase, racking and configuration of a new server. The arduous hardware purchasing process for servers […]
Today we released version 3.9 of our cloud platform which includes a few new feature enhancements, especially to the cloud load balancer, as well as the usual bug fix or two. Below is a summary of the most notable. General System/Account Changes: Maintenance Windows: We added a new feature that allows you to suppress alerting during […]
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 […]
One of Total Uptime’s largest assets is our global cloud platform, deployed in dozens of datacenters around the world with incredible cloud based routing capacity. This platform gives our customers the ability to control and route traffic between the client and the datacenter, in the middle of the Internet. As you can imagine, this provides a […]
At Total Uptime, we’re often asked how we compare to other DNS service providers. Since every business has a different set of requirements, we thought we’d compile a list of the top 5 reasons some of our customers have chosen Total Uptime Cloud DNS vs. other solution providers who may also offer DNS services. Evaluate these items […]
In our most recent cloud platform update, we added a new feature that gives our customers an audit trail of every DNS change that has been made. We’ve appropriately called it the “Change Log”. This long-anticipated feature can be found in its own tab in the Account section of the management interface. What the change […]
Round Robin DNS is a fast, simple and cost effective way to load balance or distribute traffic evenly over multiple servers or devices. Total Uptime Cloud DNS fully supports round robin DNS on all record types except CNAME. DNS allows you to create multiple records with the same host name but a different destination. By doing so, […]
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 […]