DNS Failover is a critical component to your business continuity plan allowing you to deliver a higher quality of service & uptime by detecting outages and failing over to a backup
DNS Failover Service
Use our Failover service when you absolutely, positively have to be up and running. Failover can add yet another level of redundancy to your infrastructure and is tightly integrated into our Netmon server monitoring platform. Detect server, ISP or Datacenter downtime and instantly failover your DNS entries to a backup IP or CNAME
- Highly adjustable Failover offers Failover and Failback options
- Failover in a little as 60 seconds for mission critical apps/servers
- Low TTL means instant DNS Propagation and Failover
- 20+ Methods of detection include HTTP/S, SSH, SIP Options, PING & more
- Failover CNAMES, A-Records and even add/remove servers from pools
Did you know you don’t have to move your DNS to us to use Failover? Ask us about CNAME Failover – it’s low cost and very easy to setup!
How Failover works
Failover works with our our own custom global server monitoring platform called Netmon that utilizes 7 global monitoring locations that check your primary server, ISP connection or datacenter connection at a set interval. Each location reports back with heath checks as often as every 10 seconds and If multiple locations detect a failure we run your failover rules and switch your DNS records to backup IP’s. You can optionally set to automatically failback when the primary server, ISP or Datacenter comes back up.
STEP 1 – We monitor your server(s) every 1 minute
STEP 2 – We Detect a Primary Failure and Notify you
STEP 3 – Failover DNS records to backup IP’s
STEP 4 – Failback to the Primary IP when the server comes up
ISP or Datacenter Failover
ISP / Datacenter failover offers you a simple and easy way to move DNS records when your primary ISP or datacenter fails. Many business routers such as Sonicwall, Cisco and others will automatically failover your network, let us failover your DNS records automatically. We monitor your gateway of your primary ISP every 1 minute and automatically failover selected DNS to your backup ISP and can even failback all automatically.
- Instantly Failover your on-prem hosted DNS to the backup
- Failover in a little as 60 seconds when 3 or more monitors detect a failure
- Low TTL means instant DNS Propagation and Failover
- Failover Records such as www, vpn, mail, etc when the primary fails
- Works with CNAMES and A-Records within your DNS zonefile
Server & Application Failover
Our Server/Appication failover automatically updates your DNS records upon a failure detection of your primary Server or Application Server. We monitor your server or application every 1 minute from multiple locations and when we detect 3 or more failures we switch selected A-Records and CNAMES of your choice to the backup IP’s.
- Detect HTTP/S protocols or use other methods such as page content
- Easily add uptime to your mission critical apps & servers
- Low Cost starting at just $50 a month with included Enterprise DNS
- Detection include HTTP/S, SSH, SIP, TCP/UDP connect, Ping & more
- Don’t want to move DNS, try our CNAME Failover options
Netmon Server Monitoring
Netmon Server monitoring allows you to monitoring you server at certain intervals to notify you and invoke failover based on your rules. Test your servers using almost any protocol including HTTP/S, POP3, IMAP, SSH, PING, VOIP and many others
- Adjustable monitoring interval from every 10 seconds to every hour
- 20+ different methods/protocols to test your servers/apps
- Cisco Expressway Monitoring tests the health of your Cisco UC endpoints
- Load Balance & Failover server pools based on downtime
- Setup multiple notification and failover rules
- Detailed Stats and Monitoring logs
Secure Web Control & Stats
Get secure web-based management for your testing & failover. Our detailed stats and graphs allow you to view your server response times or review response times from our individual monitoring points across the globe. Quickly identify issues with server latency with the multi-graph or get early alerts using the alert thresholds. It’s all integrated into our powerful web-based management panel
- Simple & Secure control panel makes it easy to pause, clone, add tests
- Uptime percentage meter keeps track of failures
- Notification engine allows extreme flexibility for failure notifications
- Alert thresholds can notify you before a failure happens
- Integrated Netmon control panel has stats and test management
- Web Control for manual failover for maintenance or testing
Patented performance DNS & Failover technology
Our server monitoring and Failover technology is different from every other DNS provider. We’ve built our own technology from the ground up using our own global monitoring network. We have more custom testing protocols/methods (19+ options) than any other failover service. Our US patent #20130297596 enhances our growing technology portfolio and highlights our dedication to performance and innovation in performance advanced DNS failover & geo load balancing.
