# CloudfloorDNS > DNS Platform Built for Business ## Pages - [Secure Branding and Forwarding](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secure-branding-forwarding/) - [Why is my email getting greylisted?](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-is-my-email-greylisted/): If your outbound email is arriving 15 minutes to several hours late — or your mail logs are full of... - [Secondary DNS with Cloudflare as Your Primary](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-cloudflare/): Adding a second authoritative DNS provider is one of the simplest ways to protect your domain from a provider outage... - [Uptime Monitoring](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/monitoring-plans-pricing/) - [Customer Service](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/customer-service/): Customer Service Information Contact Response Times We are committed to providing timely responses to all customer inquiries: Email/Helpdesk inquiries: We... - [Abuse](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/abuse/) - [DNS Failover](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-failover-landing/) - [Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dnsplans/) - [Secondary DNS Landing](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-landing/) - [Terms of Use](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/terms-of-use-policy/): Dated as of October 2023 This Terms of Use Policy governs your use of the CloudfloorDNS, LLC (“CloudfloorDNS”) website (the... - [Terms of Service](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/terms-of-service/): CLOUDFLOORDNS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN ORDER FORM Dated as of October 2023 These CloudfloorDNS Terms... - [Privacy Policy](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/privacy-policy/): Privacy Notice This document sets forth the privacy notice for CloudfloorDNS (“we” or “us”). 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For e-commerce sites, that... - [Cloudflare Got You Down? | CloudFloorDNS can help](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudflare-got-you-down/): The Critical Role of Secondary DNS (and Why CloudFloorDNS Has You Covered) When Cloudflare experiences an outage or service disruption,... - [Why Should I Use Secondary DNS? | CloudFloorDNS Explains](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-should-i-use-secondary-dns/): Why Should I Use Secondary DNS? A Must-Know for Businesses What is Secondary DNS and Why Does It Matter? If... - [What is Enterprise DNS? A Complete Guide for Businesses](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/what-is-enterprise-dns/): What is Enterprise DNS? A Complete Guide for Businesses Understanding Enterprise DNS In today’s digital world, businesses rely heavily on... - [Why to Use a Managed DNS Provider Over Self-Hosted DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-to-use-a-managed-dns-provider-over-self-hosted-dns/): The Case for Speed and Security In the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem, businesses depend on reliable, fast, and secure internet... - [Unleashing the Power of Managed DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/unleashing-the-power-of-managed-dns/): Unleashing the Power of Managed DNS A Comprehensive Guide to Enhanced Domain Management Introduction: In the digital era, where online... - [Significance of Secondary DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/significance-of-secondary-dns/): Secondary DNS (Domain Name System) is important for several reasons, primarily related to ensuring the reliability, availability, and resilience of... - [What is DNS Failover & does it work?](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/whatisdnsfailover/): What is DNS Failover and does it really work? DNS Failover is cloud-based authoritative DNS & monitoring service that moves... - [Migrating your DNS from DYN](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/migrating-your-dns-away-from-dyn/): Migrating your DNS away from Dyn Migrating your DNS away from Dyn? We can help! Dyn has long been the... - [What is DNS Failover?](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/what-is-dns-failover/): DNS Failover is a cloud-based service that leverages remote monitoring coupled with Anycast DNS services. It’s designed to add uptime... - [Why Domain Registration Consolidation makes sense for your Domain Portfolio](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/domain-registration-consolidation/): As any online business matures and grows, so grows their domain name portfolio. As online replaces brick & mortar, Domains... - [DNS Outages at Register.com and Network Solutions](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-outages-at-registrars-cause-major-downtime-for-thousands/): Massive DNS issues wreak havoc with Register. com and Network Solutions customers Yesterday was a tough day for many customers... - [ISP Failover – Your On-Prem Uptime Insurance Policy](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/isp-failover-dns-failover/): ISP Failover For most small to medium businesses, there are almost always some on-prem (on premise, or in-building) services hosted... - [Moving DNS away from Dyn](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/moving-dns-away-from-dyn/): Dyn was once the king of Managed DNS – a pioneer in the industry, it carved out it’s place with... - [Moving your DNS to a new provider](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/moving-your-dns-to-a-new-provider/): Are you planning on moving your DNS to a new provider? Changing your DNS to a new company can seem... - [Backup GoDaddy DNS with Secondary DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/backup-godaddy-with-secondarydns/): Backing up GoDaddy Premium DNS with Secondary DNS Secondary DNS is a great way to avoid costly DNS outages and... - [Want to speed up your online operations? Start with DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/start-with-dns-for-improving-web-performance/): Looking to Improve your Web Performance? Start with DNS Start with DNS to improve your web performance Many organizations are... - [Hurricanes, Floods and Natural Disasters and what they mean to your Online Business](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/hurricanes-natural-disasters-and-your-online-business/): Another Hurricane is on the way, what does that mean to your online business? Evacuations are already underway in Southern... - [CNAME Failover – DNS Failover for Disaster Prevention & Remediation](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cname-failover-for-disaster-prevention-disaster-recovery/): CNAME Failover – instant Disaster prevention using Server Monitoring & DNS CNAME Failover let’s you utilize the benefits of DNS... - [The importance of securing your website or web app with an SSL Secure Certificate](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/securing-your-websites-and-apps-with-ssl/): The importance of enabling SSL Security (HTTPS) on all of your websites Google is constantly focused on internet security and... - [DNS SRV Records are the close cousin to MX Records](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-srv-records-seamless-global-unified-communications/): DNS SRV Resource Records – the close cousin of MX Records MX Records are one of those critical DNS records... - [Our new patent on DNS performance & distance based load balancing](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudfloordns-announces-patent-for-performance-geo-dns-load-balancing/): CloudfloorDNS awarded US patent on Performance/Distance based Load Balancing We’re pleased to show off our shiny new US Patent on... - [Secondary DNS is the standby generator of your online business](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondarydns-protects-your-online-business-against-dns-outages/): Hurricane Phillipe came into New England with a roar this past sunday, exactly 5 years after superstorm Sandy graced us... - [Don’t let a DDoS attack eclipse your Primary DNS!](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dont-let-ddos-eclipse-your-primarydns/): Don’t let a DDoS attack Eclipse your DNS DDoS attacks are on the rise and the experts don’t forsee any... - [Deliver Localized content and increase online sales with GEO DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/deliver-localized-content-and-increase-online-sales-with-geo-dns/): UPS, FedEx and the postal service are all experts at delivering packages and they need to be as efficient as... - [Secondary DNS Hosting – Backup your DNS with ease!](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-hosting-backup-your-dns-with-ease/): Secondary DNS Hosting – DNS Backup Service DNS is such a critical component to your digital business and it’s surprising... - [Walking the internet infrastructure Tightrope](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/managed-dns-prevents-dns-outages/): DNS has been a hot topic recently when two large companies operating online went down due to DNS outages. No... - [Fine tune your Internet Content Delivery with DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/fine-tune-internet-content-delivery-with-dns/): Fine tune your Content Delivery with DNS Today’s Internet economy is truly global and your organization can expect visitors and... - [DNS Failover – Low Cost Uptime Insurance](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-failover-low-cost-uptime-insurance/): DNS can do some amazing things since it’s the start of all Internet traffic. Not only can DNS help provide... - [CloudfloorDNS and Everbridge IT Alerting Integration](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudfloordns-netmon-integrates-with-everbridge-it-alerting/): Exciting new integration with Everbridge IT Alerting Platform Today we announced an exciting integration pairing our Netmon Server and Network... - [Start with DNS to Improve your Web Performance](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/start-with-dns-to-improve-your-web-performance/): Many organizations are flocking to the cloud for their websites and hosted applications for increased performance. The cloud takes the... - [Secondary DNS – Your Internet Ops Backup Plan](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-your-internet-ops-backup-plan/): Your Internet Operations rely on DNS – an often overlooked area when it comes to enhancing both the speed and... - [Speed and Reliability are Critical for the Holiday Shopping Season](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/speed-and-reliability-for-the-holiday-shopping-season/): The holiday shopping season just started and online purchasing for holiday gifts & gatherings are heating up. This is a... - [DNS is the Foundation of Your Internet Presence](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-is-the-foundation-of-your-internet-presence/): DNS – The Foundation of your Internet Presence I’ve been in the DNS and Domain name business for almost 20... - [Don’t get yourself in a BIND with your DNS](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dont-get-yourself-in-a-bind-with-your-dns-2/): BIND is the world’s most popular DNS server – serving a large portion of the Internet due to it’s open... - [It’s a great day for DNS!](https://www.cloudfloordns.com/its-a-great-day-for-dns/): Yesterday was a great day for DNS with Cisco buying recursive DNS provider OpenDNS. I received many emails from friends... # # Detailed Content ## Pages - Published: 2026-07-26 - Modified: 2026-07-30 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secure-branding-forwarding/ SSL Website Forwarding, Secure Branding CDN Proxy Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Domain Branding & Secure RedirectsMade Simple HomeSecure Branding and Forwarding Redirect and brand your domains securely over HTTPS with automatic SSL, API access, and global GEO DNS routing. Full features on every plan Domain Branding & Secure Redirects, Made Simple Put your brand front and center on every domain you own. CloudFloorDNS Branding Plans let you redirect any domain to another over HTTPS — no servers to manage, no certificates to renew, no downtime. Whether you’re consolidating brand domains, protecting trademarks, or masking backend infrastructure, our enterprise-grade branding platform handles it all from a single dashboard. Every plan includes automatic Let’s Encrypt SSL (or bring your own certificates, including wildcards), full API access, Google Analytics integration, and complete control over your redirects with 301/302 options and follow/no-follow path settings. Need more than a simple redirect? Proxy requests straight to your backend servers while keeping your origin hidden — just like a CDN. And with built-in GEO DNS, your visitors are always routed to the server nearest... - Published: 2026-07-06 - Modified: 2026-07-16 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-is-my-email-greylisted/ If your outbound email is arriving 15 minutes to several hours late — or your mail logs are full of 451 4. 7. 1 Greylisted, please try again later responses — you're being greylisted. The good news: greylisting isn't a blacklist, and it's almost always fixable. The better news: the fix usually lives in your DNS. What is greylisting? Greylisting is an anti-spam technique used by receiving mail servers. The first time a server sees a new combination of three things — the sending IP address, the envelope sender, and the envelope recipient (the "triplet") — it temporarily rejects the message with a 4xx SMTP response: 451 4. 7. 1 Greylisting in action, please come back later A 4xx response is a temporary failure, not a bounce. Any properly configured mail server (Exim, Postfix, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace) queues the message and retries, usually within 5–30 minutes. When the retry arrives, the receiving server recognizes the triplet, accepts the message, and typically whitelists that combination for days or weeks afterward. The logic is simple: legitimate mail servers retry. Most spam cannons and compromised botnet hosts fire once and move on. Greylisting filters out a surprising amount of junk at nearly zero cost — which is exactly why so many receiving servers still use it. Why is my mail getting greylisted? Greylisting decisions are increasingly reputation-based. Many modern implementations (Postgrey, greylistd, rspamd, commercial gateways) skip greylisting entirely for senders they trust — and aggressively greylist senders they don't. If your mail... - Published: 2026-06-09 - Modified: 2026-06-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-cloudflare/ Adding a second authoritative DNS provider is one of the simplest ways to protect your domain from a provider outage or DDoS event. This guide walks through configuring CloudFloorDNS as a secondary DNS provider for zones whose primary DNS lives on Cloudflare — using standard AXFR/IXFR zone transfers, TSIG authentication, and NOTIFY for near-instant sync. Why run secondary DNS at all? A single DNS provider is a single point of failure. If your only authoritative network goes down — outage, misconfiguration, or attack — your domain stops resolving and every service on it goes dark. A second provider on a separate Anycast network keeps you resolving even when your primary is unreachable. Before you begin You will need the following. Don't worry if some values aren't obvious yet — the steps below show where each one comes from. An active CloudFloorDNS account with a Secondary DNS plan (from $40/month). Administrative access to your Cloudflare account for the zone you want to back up. The ability to add records and configure zone transfers at Cloudflare. Important Cloudflare requirement Cloudflare's outgoing zone transfers (Cloudflare-as-primary, which is what this setup needs) are an Enterprise-tier feature and must be enabled by your Cloudflare account team. If your zone isn't on a plan that supports outgoing AXFR/IXFR, contact Cloudflare to enable it before starting. If you'd rather not depend on that, ask us about a dual-primary arrangement instead — we'll help you pick the right model. Setup steps 1 Create your Secondary zone in CloudFloorDNS... - Published: 2025-12-02 - Modified: 2026-07-21 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/monitoring-plans-pricing/ Free Monitoring Plans – Website, API, and SSL Monitoring Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Website Monitoring & Uptime Monitoring with Detailed Statistics HomeUptime Monitoring Monitor your website, servers, and infrastructure with real-time alerts Comprehensive Monitoring for Your Most Critical Online Services CloudFloorDNS Netmon delivers near real-time visibility into the health, performance, and uptime of your entire online infrastructure—so you’re never the last to know when something goes wrong. From websites and email servers to APIs, VOIP systems, and SSL certificate expiration, Netmon continuously watches the services your business depends on and alerts you the moment a problem emerges. With more than 19 test types and monitoring checks from multiple global locations, Netmon gives you the observability you need to catch issues before your customers do, resolve them faster, and prove the uptime you promise. What can you monitor? HTTP(S), Ping, SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, TCP Connect, UDP Connect, SIP/VOIP, Cisco Expressway, and SSL Certificate Expiration—and more. Network Monitoring Plans You’ll be alerted the instant an issue is detected—often before your customers ever notice—so you can... - Published: 2025-10-28 - Modified: 2025-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/customer-service/ Customer Service Information Contact Response Times We are committed to providing timely responses to all customer inquiries: Email/Helpdesk inquiries: We respond within 24 business hours Abuse inquiries: We respond within 5 days Phone support: Available Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST For urgent matters, please call our priority support line, and we will address your concern immediately. 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Submit Products Resources Pricing Support Technology About Abuse +1.781.373.5823 sales@cloudfloordns.com CloudFloorDNS, LLC 40R Merrimac St., STE 201E Newburyport,... - Published: 2025-05-27 - Modified: 2025-05-27 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-failover-landing/ DNS Failover Service | Backup Digital assets with Failover Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us DNS Failover Service will monitor and failover DNS to backup IP addresses upon failure. Detect an Cloud outage, server outage, website failure and instantly move selected DNS records to a backup site. HomeDNS Failover DNS Failover Service The CloudFloor DNS Failover service will detect an outage and move DNS records (Change IP Addresses) to a backup server, ISP or Datacenter. This will minimize downtime with rapid monitoring from multiple locations, and instantly failover DNS entries to a backup IP address, CNAME or ALIAS record. Our DNS Failover Service adds another level of redundancy to your infrastructure and is tightly integrated into our Netmon server monitoring platform. Highly adjustable service offers Failover/Failback or Failover/Stay over options Move your DNS to backup in a little as 60 seconds after an outage Very Low DNS TTL cache means instant DNS Propagation to a backup IP Address 20+ Methods of detection include HTTP(S), SSH, SIP, PING & more Failover CNAMES, A records, ALIAS records and even add/remove servers... - Published: 2024-12-09 - Modified: 2026-07-16 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dnsplans/ Managed DNS Pricing | Anycast DNS Plans | 100% Uptime SLA Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Managed DNS Pricing Signup For Anycast DNS Plans Or Request A Quote HomeAnycast DNS Plans & Pricing Managed DNS on an Anycast Network Your domain is only as reliable as the DNS behind it — and downtime, slow lookups, or a single point of failure can cost you customers before they ever reach your site. CloudfloorDNS Managed DNS plans are built on our worldwide Anycast DNS network, engineered to answer every query from the location closest to your visitor for blazing-fast resolution no matter where in the world they connect from. Every plan is backed by our 100% uptime SLA and performance guarantee, so your domains stay online and lightning-quick around the clock, every day of the year. Whether you’re a solo developer running a single domain or an enterprise managing hundreds or thousands, there’s a plan sized to fit. Scale up as you grow with built-in DNS failover, GeoDNS traffic steering, DNSSEC security, and full API access — all managed from... - Published: 2024-11-19 - Modified: 2024-11-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-landing/ Protect Your Website with CloudFloorDNS Secondary DNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Secure Zone Backups with two or more Authoritative DNS Providers HomeSecondary DNS Landing Quickly and reliably backup your Primary DNS Zones with our Global Anycast DNS Network Easily backup your primary DNS with our global Anycast Secondary DNS service. Backup Cloudflare DNS Made Easy Constellix Oracle/Dyn NS1 UltraDNS NO-IP and get protection from a DNS outage. The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Backup your Primary DNS with our Secondary DNS platform Added reliability in the event of a primary DNS outage Broader diverse Global DNS Footprint Zone Transfers automatically update your zones AXFR, IXFR & TSIG supported transfers NOTIFY keeps your primary or secondary zones in Sync Many methods including Dual Primary, Live Secondary, Dark Secondary Protect yourself from DDoS Attacks and major DNS outages DNSSEC supported DNS outages are extremely costly due to the heavy impact they cause on daily operations and costs can quickly add up to more than $10,000 a minute. Secondary DNS can prevent this from happening. Download Datasheet Download PDF DDoS... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/terms-of-use-policy/ Dated as of October 2023 This Terms of Use Policy governs your use of the CloudfloorDNS, LLC (“CloudfloorDNS”) website (the “Site”) and any services that you have entered into an agreement to receive from CloudfloorDNS (the “Services”). CloudfloorDNS reserves the right, at any time, and without notice, to change the terms of this Terms of Use Policy, in its sole discretion. CloudfloorDNS expects the Client to actively review the Terms of Use Policy for any changes or updates. You, the Client, may use the Services for lawful purposes only. The Services makes use of the Internet’s DNS protocol to create and delegate domain names. You agree to use the Services in a manner that complies with all Internet regulations and policies. You agree not to use the Services for illegal purposes or in ways to disrupt and interfere with networks connected to the Services. You also agree to contact CloudfloorDNS and inform CloudfloorDNS if Client believes or knows it is under a form or threat of DOS and/or DDOS attack that may affect traffic to CloudfloorDNS servers. You would be in breach of the Terms of Use Policy if the Client does not inform CloudfloorDNS. You shall not use, or allow use of, the Services in any of the following manners (“Abuses”). As outlined below, these Abuses include Services used for illegal purposes and for activities that CloudfloorDNS finds morally inappropriate, objectionable and, unsuitable. In the event of such Abuses, CloudfloorDNS reserves the right to revoke access to the Site,... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/terms-of-service/ CLOUDFLOORDNS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN ORDER FORM Dated as of October 2023 These CloudfloorDNS Terms and Conditions of Service (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between CloudfloorDNS, and you (“You”, “Your” or “Client”), as identified on the CloudfloorDNS Enterprise DNS Order Form or other applicable ordering documents (“Order Form”), including through the CloudfloorDNS website (the “Site”), for use of CloudfloorDNS and related services (“Services”). If You are entering into this agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, You represent that You have the authority to bind legally the entity to this agreement, in which case “You” shall mean such entity. 1. 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Partners and resellers Contact Us Partner With CloudFloorDNS HomePartners and resellers Resell or Integrate DNS & Domain name services It’s easy to add more value to your hardware, software or IT services with the CloudfloorDNS reseller and partner program. Our robust secure API can register domain names and add/edit/change DNS records on the fly. Domain & DNS management is a breeze with our bulk DNS & domain management platform. Furthermore, our network monitoring and failover services are all available via our API. See our API’s here: https://apiv2.mtgsy.net/docs/v1#/ https://apiv3.mtgsy.net/docs/v1#/ MSP’s, IT Resellers & Web Designers love our platform – we can help you speed up & streamline your customer deployment, and operations and enhance your service portfolio with one powerful platform. MSP's & IT Resellers API’s for DNS & Domains Bulk DNS, Zone Templates Volume Discounts available Internet of Things Customized OEM DNS Enhance speed and reliability Load Balancing, Secondary DNS Web Designers API for seamless integration Register Domains with API Bulk DNS & Domain Operations Service Providers Custom OEM... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2025-10-29 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-dns-is-so-important/ Secure Your Online Business: The Power of DNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us DNS Is The Single Most Critical Technology For Any Online Business Investing In DNS To Ensure Your Online Assets Stay Up And Running And Available To Your Customers Around The Clock HomeWhy DNS is so important? DNS Handles All The Directions On Where To Go When People Want To Visit Your Online Business Everyone that uses the internet relies on it and every online business has it. DNS stands for Domain Name System and it translates domain names (example.com) to IP address(es) that run your website and other apps. DNS is basically a glorified directory assistance for your internet presence and without it, nobody can visit your site or any resource within your domain name. For any size internet business, having your domain name and website up and running is about as critical as it gets, even more so if you sell online. DNS isn’t cool or sexy, and honestly, it’s not really thought of that much, until it goes down. 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Our Patent on performance and distance-based DNS load balancing defines our position as one of the leaders in the DNS space HomeAbout Us Providing DNS for Over 20 Years CloudfloorDNS has been a trusted leader in DNS and Domain Portfolio management for over 20 years, providing reliable, secure, and scalable solutions to businesses worldwide. With a proven track record of innovation and performance, the company empowers organizations to optimize their online presence and ensure maximum uptime. Leveraging advanced features such as DNS failover, traffic management, and robust security, CloudfloorDNS delivers the resilience and efficiency needed in today’s digital landscape. Trusted by thousands, the company continues to set the standard for excellence in DNS services. If anyone knows DNS and Domains, we do…. Innovation Never Runs Out of Style We’re continually innovating by listening to our customers and developing services to help your online business succeed. 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How to backup up your DNS using Secondary DNS With DDoS and other attacks against DNS on the rise, Backing up your Authoritative DNS provider can be a smart move. DNS is a critical component of your Internet Infrastructure and if you only have a single DNS provider your Digital Business can also go down with it. Secondary DNS allows you to backup your live DNS zones with a secondary DNS provider and adds another level of resiliency to help avoid any DNS outages. See the Secondary DNS service page for more detail on how CloudfloorDNS can backup your Primary DNS We also have Technical How-To’s on setting up Secondary DNS with other popular DNS providers: Dyn, NS1, DNS Made Easy, GoDaddy Premium DNS Here are... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2025-10-29 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudfloordns-blog/ CloudFloorDNS Blog: DNS, Domain Management Insights Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Blog HomeBlog CloudFloorDNS Blog Some Interesting Insights on DNS, Domain Management and General Ramblings. Welcome to the CloudFloorDNS Blog! Here you’ll find some interesting thoughts and topics relating to DNS and Domain name technology. If you have any thoughts or comments of your own please don’t hesitate to share them with us. Website & Infrastructure Monitoring: A Complete Guide to Preventing Downtime December 9, 2025 Read More Cloudflare Got You Down? | CloudFloorDNS can help November 18, 2025 Read More Why Should I Use Secondary DNS? | CloudFloorDNS Explains March 4, 2025 Read More What is Enterprise DNS? A Complete Guide for Businesses February 28, 2025 Read More Why to Use a Managed DNS Provider Over Self-Hosted DNS December 24, 2024 Read More Unleashing the Power of Managed DNS December 12, 2023 Read More Significance of Secondary DNS December 11, 2023 Read More What is DNS Failover & does it work? 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Find the resources you need below CloudFloorDNS Videos CloudfloorDNS provides you with various YouTube videos as added resources. Learn how easy it is to setup DNS Failover, or how to enable DNS Load Balancing. You can find more videos on our YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/MicroTechDNS Cname Failover Setting Up DNS Failover Editing DNS Zones on CloudFloorDNS Overview of the CloudFloorDNS Platform Overview of Netmon Server Monitoring With Integrated DNS Failover Adding DNS Zone - Copy From an Existing Zonefile CloudFloorDNS Management Panel Overview Adding a DNS Zone Updating Your DNS Servers to Anycast Enterprise DNS DDoS Attacks - Mitigation and Response Techniques Using Geographic (GEO) DNS to Deliver Custom Content Secondary DNS Techniques Loading... Load More 3 Customer Case Studies See how other customers are succeeding with CloudFloorDNS services. Are you a satisfied customer and interested in participating in a case study? 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HomeOur Technology Free DDOS Protection Secondary DNS AXFR 100% Uptime Guaranteed Patented DNS Failover DNSSEC Compliant API for DNS & Domains Patented DNS & Failover DDOS Protection Free DNS Load Balancing Flexible GEO DNS Platform VOIP Failover GEO DNS Global Anycast network Dual Stack IPV4 & IPV6 100% uptime GUARANTEED! Global Anycast DNS Network GEO DNS, VOIP Failover & more Free Round Robin DNS load balancing Feature Rich Server Monitoring & DNS Failover Free DDoS Protection with Enterprise DNS Patented Managed DNS & Failover technology Our DNS platform is different from every other DNS provider. We’ve built our own technology from the ground up with a focus on providing your online organization with the DNS performance and security you need to succeed. Our US patent #20130297596 enhances our growing technology portfolio and highlights our dedication to performance and innovation in Managed DNS, Secondary DNS, DNS hosting and DNS performance using advanced DNS, DNS Failover &... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-11-21 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/anycast-dns-network/ Anycast DNS: Global & Reliable DNS Network Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? 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Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms of Use Customer Service   - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-12-27 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/webzones/ Buy Webzone Credits for DNS, Email, Failover - CloudFloorDNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us CloudFloorDNS Webzone Credits HomeBuy Webzones Buy Webzone Credits For Adding DNS, Email Forwarding, Failover Tests And Other Options CloudfloorDNS uses webzone credits for services outside of DNS Plans. If you have a DNS Plan, webzone credits are not needed. Webzones are credits for DNS services, email forwarding, netmon failover tests, and other services. Each webzone credit can be used to activate one of these services and all credit packs last 1 calendar year from date of purchase. If you want to run DNS for 10 domains, you need a 10 pack. Some additional functionality such as netmon monitoring may cost more than 1 credit. All webzone orders are provisioned immediately – You can start configuring your DNS right away. Upgrading If you want to expand the number of webzones you have, simply purchase more. The new purchase will be added to your existing account. If you would like to consolidate several smaller packs into one larger one for a cost saving, please contact sales.... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-11-21 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-pricing/ CloudFloorDNS: Uptime, Performance, & Scalable DNS Solutions Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Free OnBoarding, DNS load balancing & 100% Uptime Guarantee HomeAdvanced DNS Enterprise Anycast DNS DNS is the one of the most critical aspects of your online operations. Scale your online operations with our Patented Managed DNS platform. Global Anycast DNS - Performance & Reliability where it counts Fast global Anycast DNS Network with Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 100% Uptime SLA with integrated DDoS protection Load Balancing, GEO DNS and Failover Options 100% Free On-Boarding, Free email and phone support Plans starting at $8/month Learn More Buy Now Secondary DNS Don’t trust your Secondary DNS to just anyone, we backup BIND and all the major DNS providers DNS with precision. Backup your Critical DNS Infrastructure automatically Automatically backup your Authoritative DNS provider Notify instantly transfers your DNS updates to our Servers AXFR and API Zone Transfers, Redundant Anycast DNS Dark Secondary (non-delegated backup) options available Plans starting at $8/month Learn More Buy Now GEO DNS Solutions GEO DNS offers you the flexibility to detect your visitor's location and... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2025-04-29 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/ssl-certificates/ Secure SSL Certificates for Your Digital assets | CloudFloorDNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Secure SSL Certificates Simplify site security & reduce visitor confusion with SSL Certificates for your sites and servers HomeSecure SSL Certificates Standard & Wildcard SSL Certificates The CloudfloorDNS SSL Certificates offer an extra level of protection and security to your important sites and apps. CloudfloorDNS partners with RapidSSL and GeoTrust to provide the quick issuance of certificates. GeoTrust is the second-largest issuer of digital certificates in the world. SSL certificates ensure data between your web server and client is encrypted and is commonly recognized by the ‘https://’ url prefix and the gold padlock in the user’s browser. With SSL certificates your connection is secure. RapidSSL and GeoTrust certificates are trusted, well-recognized names in SSL security. Protect your sites with Strong encryption and get set up easily with an automated validation process. Get a single root SSL certificate typically within just minutes. Protect Online Data With SSL When it comes to online shopping and offering paid services online, it’s essential that you provide Secure SSL... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-loadbalancing/ Exceptional DNS Load Balancing: Scale Your Online Traffic Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Exceptional DNS Traffic Management Scale your online operations with DNS load Balancing HomeDNS Load Balancing Scale Internet Traffic With Weighted or Round-robin Load Balancing CloudfloorDNS Managed DNS Load Balancing gives you a leg up when it comes to handling incoming DNS requests with ease. Whether you are running a global marketing campaign or your latest video just went viral, you need the DNS capacity to handle large bursts of traffic to your website or other mission-critical applications. Our Round-Robin Managed DNS Load Balancing services are included free with all of our DNS packages, allowing you to send requests to multiple IP’s/Servers instead of just one. When integrated with our Netmon server monitoring features, you can add and remove IP’s/Servers from the load balancing pool if they fail and add them back into the pool automatically when they come back up. Managed DNS Load Balancing Instant cloud deployment, no hardware required EASILY LOAD BALANCE YOUR DNS TRAFFIC ROUND-ROBIN LOAD BALANCING WEIGHTED LOAD BALANCING GEO LOAD BALANCING... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/voip-failover/ VOIP Failover: Ensure Uptime with Global Monitoring and DNS Failover Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us VOIP Failover Deliver a Higher Quality Service & Less Downtime With Global Monitoring & VOIP Failover HomeVOIP Failover VOIP Failover When you absolutely, positively have to be up and running our VOIP Failover service can add yet another level of redundancy to your VOIP and Unified Communications offerings. Tightly integrated into our Netmon global server monitoring, our DNS failover automatically updates your DNS to a backup IP upon a failure or degraded server. Highly adjustable VOIP Failover offers Failover and Failback options VOIP Failover tests UDP, TCP and TLS on any custom port Failover in a little as 30 seconds for mission critical apps/servers Low TTL DNS Cache means instant DNS Propagation and Failover 19+ Methods of detection include HTTP/S, SIP Options, PING & more Failover CNAMES, A-Records & add/remove servers from LB 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!... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2026-04-02 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-failover/ DNS Failover | Backup Digital assets with Failover Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us DNS Failover will monitor and failover DNS to backup IP addresses upon failure. Detect an ISP outage, server outage, website failure and instantly move selected DNS records to a backup site. HomeDNS Failover DNS Failover The CloudFloor DNS Failover service will detect an outage and move DNS records to a backup server, ISP or Datacenter. This will minimize downtime with rapid monitoring from multiple locations, and instantly failover DNS entries to a backup IP address or CNAME. Our Failover service adds another level of redundancy to your infrastructure and is tightly integrated into our Netmon server monitoring platform. Highly adjustable service offers Failover/Failback or Failover/Stay over options Move your DNS to backup in a little as 60 seconds after an outage Very Low DNS TTL cache means instant DNS Propagation to a backup IP Address 20+ Methods of detection include HTTP(S), SSH, SIP, PING & more Failover CNAMES, A records, ALIAS records and even add/remove servers from Load Balance pools Did you know you don’t... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-10-28 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/geo-dns-for-srv/ GEO DNS SRV: Boost Global UC Performance & Reduce Latency Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us GEO DNS SRV Latency Can Crush Your Unified Communications Performance When Going Global Our GEO DNS SRV Lowers Jitter & Latency by Sending Your Users to the Closest Endpoint HomeGeo DNS SRV Latency Kills Call Quality Traditional DNS falls flat when it comes to serving up DNS for your VOIP & UC Platform! It’s true, internet latency can kill video & voice quality and totally ruin the end-user experience of your UC or VOIP platform. Get away from traditional DNS SRV records and increase your global performance with our CloudFloor GEO DNS SRV solution. GEO DNS SRV instantly lowers latency/jitter to provide a higher level of service quality for your VOIP & Unified Communications platform Add Geo Intelligence to Your Voip & Unified Communications Communicate smarter by delivering users to the closest endpoints Avoids high latency voice & video for VOIP and UC networks Detects end-user location and directs them to closest endpoint Works with Cisco Expressway, Webex Teams, Skype, PexIP and others... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2024-11-22 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/geo-dns-director/ GEO DNS Director: Fast, Localized Content Delivery for Global Reach Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us GEO DNS Director GEO DNS Director Offers the Ability to Provide Custom DNS Responses Based on Visitor Location or Geographic Region HomeGeo DNS Director Geo DNS Director Suite Our GEO DNS Director offers a suite of Geographic DNS powered services to help you instantly locate your web visitors and send them to the fastest, closest server automatically or set custom DNS responses/specific targets (A Records, SRV Records, CNAME, URL Forwarding, Path Forwarding) based user location. GEO URL and Path Forwarding examine the incoming request and can redirect to any URL based on the incoming request. Our GEO DNS Director offers the most versatile GEO DNS platform available today. Direct your VOIP & digital callers to the fastest, closest servers Direct your online shoppers to their local website for localized content GEO DNS SRV Records optimize global VOIP & Unified Communications GEO URL Director can redirect to http/s URL’s based on location GEO Path Director can redirect based on incoming requested URL Load Balance... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2025-10-29 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/domainnames/ Domain Name Registration | Claim Yours today | CloudFloorDNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Our Domain Portfolio Management & Managed DNS Platform is Powered by a Global Anycast DNS Network HomeDomain Portfolio Management Support for Over 250 Tld’s CloudfloorDNS offers Domain Name registration and transfer services. Protect your brand by securing all of the popular brand-related domains such as .ai, .io, .com, .net, .org, .biz as well as many country specific domains such as .it, .fr, .es, .co.uk, .uk and many others. Registration/Transfer services – over 250+ popular TLD’s Advanced API available for Domain functions for easy integration Bulk Domain name functions let you update contact details Discounts available for large Domain Registration and Transfers Free WHOIS Privacy helps protect your domain from WHOIS SPAM Reseller options are also available for all Domain & DNS offerings Get your Domain Now Integrated Enterprise DNS Platform Our integrated Managed DNS platform brings your domain name to life with our fast and reliable Anycast Managed DNS platform. Our secure web-based management platform provides a quick and easy way to manage your... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2026-04-01 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondarydns/ Secondary DNS Provider | Backup Cloudflare Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Secure Zone Backups with two or more Authoritative DNS Providers HomeSecondary DNS Quickly and reliably backup your Primary DNS Zones with our Global Anycast DNS Network Easily backup your primary DNS with our global Anycast Secondary DNS service. Backup Cloudflare DNS Made Easy Constellix Oracle/Dyn NS1 UltraDNS NO-IP and get protection from a DNS outage. The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Backup your Primary DNS with our Secondary DNS platform Added reliability in the event of a primary DNS outage Broader diverse Global DNS Footprint Zone Transfers automatically update your zones AXFR, IXFR & TSIG supported transfers NOTIFY keeps your primary or secondary zones in Sync Many methods including Dual Primary, Live Secondary, Dark Secondary Protect yourself from DDoS Attacks and major DNS outages DNSSEC supported Read here about the Significance of Secondary DNS DNS outages are extremely costly due to the heavy impact they cause on daily operations and costs can quickly add up to more than $10,000 a minute. Secondary DNS can prevent this from... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2026-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/managed-dns/ Managed DNS | Take Control of Your DNS with CloudFloorDNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? Partners and resellers Contact Us Our Enterprise-class Managed DNS Services Offer Primary And Secondary DNS Hosted On A Global Anycast Network Best Business Managed DNS Solution HomeManaged DNS DNS Service DNS, or Domain Name System, is absolutely essential and critical to ensuring your online performance remains fast and your website or service maintains consistent uptime. When DNS operates slowly or experiences unexpected outages, it can severely disrupt and potentially take down your entire online presence, leaving your website, applications, or services completely inaccessible to users. Our Managed DNS solution offers and provides exceptionally reliable, rock-solid performance that you can depend on, along with comprehensive, in-depth DNS statistics and valuable insights for both your Primary DNS and Secondary DNS configurations. Our API allows full automation into our DNS platform for seamless integrations. We encourage you to try our Managed DNS Service today to experience firsthand the significant difference it can make in enhancing and optimizing your online performance, ensuring your digital presence remains robust, responsive, and always available to... - Published: 2024-08-14 - Modified: 2026-04-04 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/ Managed DNS & Secondary DNS, 100% Uptime | CloudFloorDNS Create Free Account My Account/Login Products Managed DNS Secondary DNS Domain Portfolio Management Geo DNS Director Geo DNS SRV DNS Failover VOIP Failover DNS Load Balancing Secure SSL Certificates Uptime Monitoring Pricing Anycast DNS Plans & Pricing Advanced DNS Secure SSL Certificates Buy Webzones Uptime Monitoring Technology Anycast DNS Network Our Technology Resources Resources Blog Support Support Helpdesk Support Utilities Support FAQs System Status About About Us Why DNS is so important? 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For e-commerce sites, that figure can reach thousands of dollars per hour. On SaaS platforms, it means broken customer trust and churned subscriptions and enterprises running mission-critical applications, unplanned outages can cascade into compliance violations. SLA breaches, and reputational damage that takes months to repair. Yet despite these stakes, too many organizations still operate in reactive mode—learning about outages from angry customers instead of automated alerts, and scrambling to diagnose problems without baseline performance data to guide them. The reality of modern digital infrastructure is that complexity has outpaced visibility. Your business likely depends on a web of interconnected services: websites, APIs, email servers, VoIP systems, SSL certificates with expiration dates, and backend services distributed across cloud providers and on-premise hardware. Any one of these components can fail independently, and when they do, the clock starts ticking. The Shift from Reactive to Proactive Proactive monitoring flips the script. Instead of waiting for failures to surface through customer complaints or revenue dips, you gain real-time observability into the health and performance of every critical endpoint. You know within seconds—not hours—when something goes wrong. More importantly, you can identify degradation patterns before they escalate into full outages. At CloudfloorDNS, we've spent over 25 years helping organizations keep their digital infrastructure online with our managed DNS, failover, and GeoDNS services. Our Netmon monitoring platform extends that same commitment to reliability across your entire stack—from HTTP endpoints and... - Published: 2025-11-18 - Modified: 2026-06-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudflare-got-you-down/ - Categories: General - Tags: Cloudflare, DNS Backup, Secondary DNS The Critical Role of Secondary DNS (and Why CloudFloorDNS Has You Covered) When Cloudflare experiences an outage or service disruption, thousands of organizations feel the ripple effects instantly. Websites become unreachable, critical APIs stop responding, customer portals fail to load, and mission-critical applications can grind to a halt. Cloudflare is one of the largest DNS and security platforms in the world, but even the biggest providers are not immune to downtime, network saturation, or regional interruptions. This reality is pushing more businesses to adopt Secondary DNS — a high-resilience strategy designed to preserve uptime even when a primary DNS provider encounters issues. For organizations relying heavily on Cloudflare, implementing a Secondary DNS service is no longer a luxury; it is a safeguard that ensures your digital presence remains accessible when your primary provider falters. Secondary DNS works by syncing a duplicate set of DNS records from your primary server to a secondary one. If your primary DNS goes down—due to an outage, attack, or maintenance—the secondary server steps in to handle queries. Providers like CloudFloorDNS make this process seamless with their robust Secondary DNS services. Why Cloudflare Outages Hit Hard Cloudflare operates a global, performance-optimized Anycast network, but DNS remains a single point of failure if it is solely dependent on one provider. When Cloudflare experiences issues such as: Large-scale DDoS attacks Routing disruptions Configuration errors Regional network instability Software bugs or propagation delays ... organizations relying exclusively on Cloudflare DNS may suddenly become unreachable, regardless of how resilient their... - Published: 2025-03-04 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-should-i-use-secondary-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: Secondary DNS, Use Secondary DNS Why Should I Use Secondary DNS? A Must-Know for Businesses What is Secondary DNS and Why Does It Matter? If your business relies on an online presence—whether it’s a website, email, or app—your DNS (Domain Name System) is the backbone that keeps everything running. But what happens if your primary DNS fails? That’s where Secondary DNS comes in. It’s a backup system that ensures your domains stay accessible, even when the unexpected strikes. So, why should you use Secondary DNS? Let’s dive into the key reasons it’s a game-changer for reliability, performance, and security. Secondary DNS works by syncing a duplicate set of DNS records from your primary server to a secondary one. If your primary DNS goes down—due to an outage, attack, or maintenance—the secondary server steps in to handle queries. Providers like CloudFloorDNS make this process seamless with their robust Secondary DNS services. Top Reasons to Use Secondary DNS 1. Unmatched Reliability with Redundancy Downtime is a business’s worst nightmare. A single point of failure in your DNS setup can knock your website offline, disrupt email, or halt customer transactions. Secondary DNS adds a layer of redundancy—meaning if your primary server fails, the secondary one takes over instantly. With CloudFloorDNS DNS Failover, you get automated protection to keep your services live 24/7. 2. Better Performance Through Load Balancing High-traffic websites can overload a single DNS server, slowing down response times or even causing outages. Secondary DNS helps distribute query loads across multiple servers, improving speed and stability. CloudFloorDNS... - Published: 2025-02-28 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/what-is-enterprise-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: Enterprise DNS, Managed DNS What is Enterprise DNS? A Complete Guide for Businesses Understanding Enterprise DNS In today’s digital world, businesses rely heavily on fast, secure, and reliable online operations. At the heart of this lies Enterprise DNS—a powerful system designed to meet the complex needs of large organizations. But what exactly is Enterprise DNS, and why should your business care? In this guide, we’ll break it down and explore how services like those from CloudFloorDNS can supercharge your network performance. Enterprise DNS is an advanced Domain Name System tailored for businesses with extensive networks, multiple domains, or global operations. Unlike standard DNS, which simply translates domain names (like www. example. com) into IP addresses, Enterprise DNS offers enhanced features such as load balancing, traffic management, and high availability to ensure seamless online experiences. How Does Enterprise DNS Work? The Domain Name System (DNS) acts like the internet’s phonebook, directing users to the right servers. For enterprises, this process scales up significantly. Enterprise DNS uses a global network of servers—often leveraging Anycast DNS technology—to route traffic efficiently. This means faster load times, reduced latency, and improved uptime, even during peak usage or outages. For example, CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS employs an Anycast network to deliver lightning-fast responses and a 100% uptime guarantee, making it a top choice for businesses needing reliability. Key Benefits of Enterprise DNS Speed and Performance: With features like Anycast routing, Enterprise DNS reduces latency by connecting users to the nearest server, boosting website speed—a critical factor for user satisfaction and SEO... - Published: 2024-12-24 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/why-to-use-a-managed-dns-provider-over-self-hosted-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: DNS Provider, Managed DNS The Case for Speed and Security In the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem, businesses depend on reliable, fast, and secure internet services to maintain their online presence. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the foundation of this infrastructure, enabling the seamless translation of domain names into IP addresses. When it comes to managing DNS, organizations often face a pivotal choice: use a managed DNS provider or host their DNS internally. While self-hosted DNS solutions offer control, managed DNS providers deliver superior advantages in speed, security, and overall efficiency. This article delves into why managed DNS providers are the preferred choice for businesses aiming to ensure optimal performance and robust security, especially in an era where speed and protection are paramount for success. Introduction to DNS and Its Role in Modern Digital Infrastructure DNS acts as the internet’s address book, translating user-friendly domain names like “example. com” into machine-readable IP addresses. This critical process ensures users can access websites and applications without manual intervention. However, the efficiency and security of DNS depend heavily on the infrastructure supporting it. Managed DNS providers offer a global network of servers optimized for speed and fortified against cyber threats, whereas self-hosted solutions often lack the resources to deliver comparable performance and protection. Speed is a defining factor in the digital age. Slow DNS resolution can lead to poor user experiences, reduced website engagement, and even lost revenue. Security, on the other hand, has become a non-negotiable aspect of DNS management as cyberattacks grow increasingly sophisticated. Businesses... - Published: 2023-12-12 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/unleashing-the-power-of-managed-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: Managed DNS Unleashing the Power of Managed DNS Unleashing the Power of Managed DNS A Comprehensive Guide to Enhanced Domain Management Introduction: In the digital era, where online presence is paramount, the Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the backbone, translating user-friendly domain names into IP addresses, the numbers computers and routers use to connect to each other. Managed DNS has emerged as a game-changer, offering businesses an efficient and reliable solution for domain management at scale. This comprehensive guide explores the compelling reasons why organizations of all sizes are opting for Managed DNS to streamline their online operations. 1. Reliability and High Availability: Advantage: Managed DNS providers typically operate on globally distributed networks, ensuring high availability for domain resolution and fast response times from anywhere. This translates to a consistent and reliable online presence, critical for businesses that cannot afford downtime or slow content loads. 2. Performance Optimization with Anycast: Advantage: Anycast technology employed by Managed DNS services routes DNS queries to the nearest available server. This reduces latency, optimizes performance, and enhances the overall responsiveness of websites and online services as well as dilutes DDoS attack traffic. 3. Scalability to Support Growth: Advantage: As businesses expand, so does the demand on DNS infrastructure. Managed DNS services are designed to scale seamlessly, accommodating the growing volume of DNS queries and ensuring that performance remains unhindered during periods of increased traffic. Most Managed DNS services also provide comprehensive API’s into their DNS and domain name platform which is critical for customers with... - Published: 2023-12-11 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/significance-of-secondary-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: Secondary DNS Secondary DNS (Domain Name System) is important for several reasons, primarily related to ensuring the reliability, availability, and resilience of your domain name services. Here are some key reasons why implementing Secondary DNS is so crucial. Redundancy and High Availability Secondary DNS provides redundancy by having a backup DNS network to a primary DNS configuration. In the event that the primary DNS network becomes unavailable due to hardware failure, network issues, or other reasons, the secondary DNS network can take over, ensuring that your domain names remain accessible and online. This redundancy helps minimize downtime and ensures high availability for your online presence and services. Load Distribution Secondary DNS can also help distribute the query load evenly across multiple DNS platforms which reside on different networks, AS’s (autonomous system) and geographical regions. This is especially important for high-traffic websites or services that need to be online and available 24x7x365 with significant uptime (99. 99%+). By spreading the DNS queries across multiple servers clusters, you can prevent overloading a single network or region, which can help prevent slow response times or potential service outages. Geographic Redundancy If you have a global audience, using a secondary DNS network in different geographic locations can help improve the performance and reliability of your domain name resolution globally. Users from various regions and countries will be directed to the nearest and most responsive DNS server, reducing latency and providing the best user experience. Protection Against DDoS Attacks Secondary DNS can provide extra protection against Distributed... - Published: 2023-08-30 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/whatisdnsfailover/ - Categories: General What is DNS Failover and does it really work? DNS Failover is cloud-based authoritative DNS & monitoring service that moves DNS records to a backup IP or CNAME when an outage occurs. Simply put, Failover utilizing DNS is a low cost, rapid deployment DNS & monitoring service that provides more uptime for any digital business Failover services have been around a long time and they work well. It’s been a popular internet service offering for managed DNS providers since first debuted by TZO (Tzolkin corp) back in 2001 with the AutoFailover DNS service. The components of a Failover solution Failover is powered by two main components, global network monitoring coupled with a managed DNS platform. Failing over DNS simply can’t be accomplished properly without monitoring from multiple remote locations. The monitoring node’s must gather data to make intelligent decisions based on the protocol and responses from the host or IP being monitored. The failover of DNS happens when more than one node detects an outage or unresponsive host or IP address. This outage triggers the failover rules, automatically changing the hosts selected in the DNS zonefile to the CNAME or IP of the backup. The diagram shown below shows how this is accomplished with a single web server. DNS Failover service will monitor and failover DNS when your Web Server goes offline Failover services require a fast, reliable DNS with a very low TTL (typically 30 seconds) or DNS cache time. A low TTL allows recursive DNS servers around the... - Published: 2022-12-14 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/migrating-your-dns-away-from-dyn/ - Categories: General Migrating your DNS away from Dyn Migrating your DNS away from Dyn? We can help! Dyn has long been the darling of Managed DNS services since their inception almost 20 years ago. Oracle had purchased their booming Managed DNS business in 2016 and not too long after that announced the closure and migration path to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As you can guess, many folks simply did not want to migrate their DNS to Oracle Cloud and this triggered a mass exodus that has been going on since 2018. Oracle pushed the closure date a few times but set a hard and fast shutdown date of May 31, 2023. As we approach that date many more domains are moving off the Dyn platform and there isn’t much time left to leave or move to Oracle. As you can see from the below graph on BuiltWith – this shows the exodus – some have moved to Oracle cloud, but many have selected other managed DNS providers such as CloudFloorDNS and others. Selecting your Managed DNS provider and where to migrate your DNS is probably one of the most important decisions you can make in regards to your digital business. It’s not every day that we move DNS around from one provider to another, so getting some expert assistance is of high importance. When it comes to DNS, an outage on your primary domain or any domain in production can be catastrophic. One dot out of place or fat fingering could cause a... - Published: 2021-12-13 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/what-is-dns-failover/ - Categories: General DNS Failover is a cloud-based service that leverages remote monitoring coupled with Anycast DNS services. It’s designed to add uptime and prevent outages by failing over a hostname to a backup IP or CNAME. Failover is powered by two separate services: Server or application monitoring and a DNS platform. The DNS must have a low TTL that can handle automatic DNS Failover based on the intelligent monitoring decisions. Failover is accomplished by multiple monitoring points using different networks in various geographical locations. The monitoring must have intelligent decision-making to prevent false positives or failover could happen when it isn’t needed. Failover is initiated when the monitoring “brain” determines that more than one of the monitoring agents can’t reach the IP or hostname being monitored. This kicks off the failover rules and DNS will automatically change the CNAME or IP address to the backup address. The DNS service within DNS failover should be a fast & reliable that offers a very low TTL (also known as DNS cache time). The TTL should be set at half of the time of the test interval. For example, if we are testing a web server every 1 minute, the DNS for the www. example. com record should be set to a 30-second TTL. This allows recursive servers around the globe to ensure a fresh lookup on the www record every 30 seconds. When the monitoring endpoints detect a “down” host, our Netmon monitoring platform collects all location reports and if more than 3 are... - Published: 2021-11-22 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/domain-registration-consolidation/ - Categories: General - Tags: Domain Names, Domain Portfolio Management As any online business matures and grows, so grows their domain name portfolio. As online replaces brick & mortar, Domains (and DNS) are ever more important parts of your IP (Intellectual Property) and act as the true foundation of your online business. Your online brand, DNS & domain name are so closely tied together that any downtime, outages, expirations of your Domain, DNS or SSL will wreak havoc on your online infrastructure. This is really bad for business not to mention the extraordinary amount of lost revenue and intangible brand damage. Modern businesses now tend to own more domain names than ever before due to mergers/acquisitions, marketing programs and brand & phishing protection. The more domains an organization has, the better the likelihood that these domains are spread out over many different registrars. Some at GoDaddy, some at Reg123, some at Network Solutions and maybe a few at WildWest. The list goes on and having more than a few domains a different registrars can cause you to accidentally lose domains due to missed expirations or failure to keep your contact details updated across your portfolio. Owning domains that could be mistaken for your brand name is a key defense strategy against phishing and other attacks. These attacks tend to use a look-alike website with a domain that is mistaken for your brand. It’s better that you own them than the crooks! Domain consolidation makes sense as having your portfolio of domains located in a singular registration coupled with an enterprise... - Published: 2021-05-04 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-outages-at-registrars-cause-major-downtime-for-thousands/ - Categories: General Massive DNS issues wreak havoc with Register. com and Network Solutions customers Yesterday was a tough day for many customers with Register. com and Network Solutions. We received many calls, emails and pleas for help as their customers were offline, seemingly due to a massive DNS issue from our investigations. Both register. com and network solutions are owned by newly created Newfold Digital. Newfold Digital is a new name but has many recognizable brands in the “fold” – namely Register. com, Web. com, Network Solutions. com, Endurance International (hostgator, bluehost, domain. com) Our techs and sales team fielded many inquiries on moving DNS, how to move DNS away from Register. com and Network Solutions and get them back online. We helped as many register. com and netsol customers move/migrate their DNS to our Anycast DNS platform, but many were left out in the cold and were confused on what the issue actually was. This was due to the vague message repeated over and over by both Network Solutions and Register. com on their Twitter accounts. It was pretty clear their DNS was not responding properly but that wasn’t made clear so many customers were simply in the dark as to the issue and waited it out The big issue is keeping DNS for any business domain at your registrar (where you ordered and renew your domain name registration). Why is this so bad you ask? Well, this is a fairly simple reason but there are many finer points that I’ll... - Published: 2021-03-09 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/isp-failover-dns-failover/ - Categories: General ISP Failover For most small to medium businesses, there are almost always some on-prem (on premise, or in-building) services hosted at “HQ” or at some satellite offices. Many of these services are commonly used for remote employees or external customers and both need to be up and running to run the business. In many cases these on-prem hosted services are VPN, OWA (Outlook Web Access), WWW, FTP, ADFS, Databases, sales tools etc. The biggest issue with hosting these above on-prem services using a single ISP is downtime. Downtime is expensive – and just a single VPN outage can knock your remote employees offline and put a stop to your business. Hosting your Website on-prem too? Well, you are now losing sales and both your remote employees and customers are all calling your helpdesk and in-house IT to figure out what’s going on. It’s a downward spiral from here and can cost much more than money. Don’t forget about the intangible effects from angry customers, damage to your brand and reputation and so much more. So yeah, we can say that downtime is expensive in more ways than one! Using only a single ISP to host your on-prem services is like playing the lottery – it may never go down for an extended period, or Murphy’s law would have a car hit a telephone pole up the street and snap it in half. This causes your ISP to be knocked out for 12+ hours during the business season of the year.... - Published: 2020-12-23 - Modified: 2024-11-21 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/moving-dns-away-from-dyn/ - Categories: General Dyn was once the king of Managed DNS – a pioneer in the industry, it carved out it’s place with a start in Dynamic DNS much like I did during my time creating TZO. com back in the late 90’s. Sadly the time has come for Dyn to close it’s doors since Oracle announced the end-of-life in June 2019. Although the initial deadline of May 2020 has been pushed out to May 2022, it’s still a good idea to explore the idea of moving your DNS away from Dyn should you not want to move to Oracle Cloud. Data from BuiltWith showing the mass exodus of domains from the Dyn platform It seems that many customers have already left – just look at the image below courtesy of BuiltWith. com. This image shows the mass exodus of domains being moved after the Dyn closure announcement – my guess is that many Dyn customers were not excited to make the move to a large software behemoth like Oracle. Maybe the feeling that they will get lost in the crowd? It’s tough to say, but as we approach the Dyn DNS final EOL (End of Life) date we can expect to see many more clients jumping ship. Why move DNS away from Dyn sooner than later? Moving DNS from one provider to another isn’t something we do everyday and can seem like a daunting task. One mistake in the migration can wreak havoc on your DNS, causing downtime, panic and even loss... - Published: 2020-12-04 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/moving-your-dns-to-a-new-provider/ - Categories: General Are you planning on moving your DNS to a new provider? Changing your DNS to a new company can seem scary but have no fear! Skip down to our steps on preparing to move DNS and actually making the move to a new DNS provider and this should help you understand what’s entailed. It’s been just about 25 years since my career in IT turned into a career as a DNS provider. From the early days at TZO, a stint at Dyn and now CloudFloorDNS, there is one thing that stands out and that’s overall awareness. What I’m talking about is overall DNS Awareness – essentially understanding what DNS is, how DNS works, why DNS is important, and why it’s a critical Internet technology that you need to focus on if you care about the success of your online business. Keep in mind we are talking about Authoritative DNS – where you would host a domain you own like Example. com and want to host a website, email server, Unified Communications, VOIP server, VPN, etc Recursive DNS (OpenDNS, Google Public DNS) is another beast and Managed DNS providers focus on Authoritative DNS and that’s what we’ll be focusing on It seemed that for many years, DNS as a whole has always been a mystery service that’s behind the scenes and very few knew what it was or really how it worked. Now that all seems to be changing and there is much more emphasis on the awareness of this critical... - Published: 2018-12-10 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/backup-godaddy-with-secondarydns/ - Categories: General Backing up GoDaddy Premium DNS with Secondary DNS Secondary DNS is a great way to avoid costly DNS outages and many organizations are moving toward a dual DNS infrastructure. GoDaddy has had their share of DNS outages in the past and no matter who your DNS provider is, it’s a good idea to setup a secondary DNS to help avoid outages Setting up Secondary DNS is quick and takes less than 10 minutes. This article will highlight the basics on adding Secondary DNS and setting up the DNS to have both GoDaddy and CloudFloorDNS answering DNS requests. Before you begin, you need a few things. You’ll need GoDaddy Premium services on each domain you want to backup DNS, and you’ll also need A CloudFloorDNS account and an Anycast DNS plan from CloudFloor Enable Secondary DNS at GoDaddy In order to enable Secondary DNS on a domain name at GoDaddy, you MUST be using the default GoDaddy name servers with your domain. If you are using EXTERNAL name servers (also known as custom name servers) you must RESET them back to GoDaddy name servers (Default option) for Secondary DNS to become an option on the selected domain name. To enable Secondary DNS, Login to GoDaddy, and then on your product list next to Domains, click the Text Icon (Plus sign button) to expand the domain list Click on the MANAGE DNS on the domain name you want to setup Secondary DNS on as shown below Scroll down and select Secondary DNS.... - Published: 2018-11-08 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/start-with-dns-for-improving-web-performance/ - Categories: General Looking to Improve your Web Performance? Start with DNS Start with DNS to improve your web performance Many organizations are flocking to the cloud for their websites and hosted applications for increased performance. The cloud takes the chore out of provisioning servers and adds a layer of simplicity to scale out performance as the need escalates with just a few clicks. Having a large network of fast servers at the ready helps with scalability, but it’s only part of the equation to optimum web performance. DNS is often overlooked when it comes to your Internet operations performance, yet it’s often one of the most critical components in the chain when squeezing out every ounce of speed. Every web page and app have resources and objects that are required to load for the page or app to be usable. Some web pages and apps can have hundreds of these, each one taking a few milliseconds to load. Each of these resources are typically hosted on your servers and thus need a DNS request to process each item. Slow DNS means slowdowns when fetching these resources, and the end result is slow page and app rendering. Mix slow anything with today’s ever-impatient consumers and you have a problem. Today’s online visitors will wait for a second or two until they leave your site in search of the products or services they are looking for. Marketing research proves it – slow site means a loss of clients and revenue to faster, more convenient... - Published: 2018-10-09 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/hurricanes-natural-disasters-and-your-online-business/ - Categories: General Another Hurricane is on the way, what does that mean to your online business? Evacuations are already underway in Southern Florida for incoming hurricane Michael and homes and businesses are fortifying their defenses to help protect them from the wrath of this storm. Many online businesses may not realize one of their data centers is in the path of the hurricane and can lose one of their valuable (and possibly primary) hosting locations. For most online organizations, losing a datacenter can wreak havoc with online operations causing email, websites, apps, vpn, phone system and more going belly up. That’s why it’s important to have a plan for disaster prevention/recovery with services that can keep things running smoothly. Downtime and loss of service from an outage will put a massive dent in your books and can cost many thousands of dollars per minute depending on the size of the business. Avoiding these outages are impossible when it comes to natural disasters, so most business take action to migrate and balance to multiple data centers, avoid a single point of failure. Some of these techniques rely on good ol’ DNS – mainly load balancing and server monitoring/failover based on data center or server health. It’s also a plus that these DNS services are cloud-based and relatively low cost compared to an outage. DNS load balancing provides a simple and effective way of distributing load across multiple servers and data centers, reducing a total outage should one go down. Performance may be degraded,... - Published: 2018-09-10 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cname-failover-for-disaster-prevention-disaster-recovery/ - Categories: General CNAME Failover – instant Disaster prevention using Server Monitoring & DNS CNAME Failover let’s you utilize the benefits of DNS Failover without having to move your DNS to a new managed DNS provider. This let’s you get DNS failover and use it with any DNS provider such as GoDaddy, Verisign, Network Solutions, Ghandi, 1&1 and others. Setup is a breeze and all you need to do is simply change one A-Record in your current DNS and CNAME that to a domain name CloudFloorDNS provides for you. That’s it! CNAME Failover can be setup quickly and easily and best of all it’s low cost. Once you have your CNAME selected (yournamehere. cfdnsfo. com) you can then setup the monitoring component that tests your server or web application. In most cases it’s a web server, but you can also use CNAME failover with other services and domains if your primary ISP goes down. A good example would be Failing over several hostnames when your primary ISP goes down. We setup a Netmon monitoring agent to test your primary ISP gateway or firewall to determine it’s up. Once we determine the Primary ISP has failed and is no longer responding, we update your CNAME to the backup IP you provide in the Failover. Our low TTL times allow the DNS record to propagate quickly and since your name is CNAMED to ours, you don’t have to change a thing at your current DNS provider In order to use Failover you must use a... - Published: 2018-02-21 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/securing-your-websites-and-apps-with-ssl/ - Categories: General The importance of enabling SSL Security (HTTPS) on all of your websites Google is constantly focused on internet security and in recent months have been enforcing more security in their popular Google Chrome browser. The Chrome browser is pushing security (HTTPS) and is now warning users in the browser just to the left of the website as shown in figure 1-1 below. This means all users of Google Chrome browser (the world’s most popular browser) now see this secure or non-secure badge for every website they visit that is not using HTTPS. Starting in July 2018 this warning will be large as shown in figure 1-2 and can’t be missed. This large warning can possibly scare people away from your website if it’s not protected with HTTPS! SSL/TLS are encryption mechanisms that help protect the data from your browser to the server across the internet. This keeps any passwords, credit cards and other sensitive data away from prying eyes. In the old days this technology was mainly assigned to any form where credit cards were taken, but now with prying eyes everywhere, google suggests all websites turn on security by installing secure certificates. Once installed, browsers will no longer show the warning and show the green lock and “secure” as shown in figure 1-3 (Figure 1-1) How it looks in the Chrome browser when users visit a Non-Secure website or web-based application (Figure 1-2) In future versions this is what a user will see during a visit to a Non-Secure... - Published: 2017-12-15 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-srv-records-seamless-global-unified-communications/ - Categories: General DNS SRV Resource Records – the close cousin of MX Records MX Records are one of those critical DNS records that are required for any domain that’s using email. They are a different type of record than all the others in that they have built in redundancy into the record set itself. This built in redundancy comes in from having two or more MX records required (primary and backup server at the least) and priorities set on these records MX records for email servers would look like: Host Priority primarymail. example. com 10 backupmail. example. com 20 MX records are designed this way to ensure mail will be reliable and that there is always a backup server. If an email is sent and the first server isn’t responding, the second server at priority 20 get’s called into duty and the email is delivered. SRV records are another type of DNS resource record that also offers built in redundancy in the form of multiple records with both weight and priority and port. Here’s the excerpt from the RFC written by Paul Vixie back in Feb 2000: “The SRV RR allows administrators to use several servers for a single domain, to move services from host to host with little fuss, and to designate some hosts as primary servers for a service and others as backups. Clients ask for a specific service/protocol for a specific domain (the word domain is used here in the strict RFC 1034 sense), and get back the names... - Published: 2017-11-06 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudfloordns-announces-patent-for-performance-geo-dns-load-balancing/ - Categories: General CloudfloorDNS awarded US patent on Performance/Distance based Load Balancing We’re pleased to show off our shiny new US Patent on performance & location based DNS Load Balancing. This is a big deal to us – it’s something that has been in the US Patent system for almost 6 years. This patent is a combination of hard work by a handful of talented people here at CloudfloorDNS and our parent company Everbridge. Why is this patent important? The patent, US# US20130297596 A1 details “systems and methods for performance based load balancing” and covers our unique combination of both performance testing (monitoring servers for latency, uptime) and our GEO DNS and DNS Failover services. This combination of global monitoring and our Anycast DNS network coupled with advanced DNS-based services offer the the best possible performance and reliability for any online business. Cloudfloor and Everbridge showing off their new US Patent How our customers utilize these services: GEO DNS – Geographically Balancing & Prioritizing Unified Communications A growing number of clients are utilizing our GEO DNS to hand back DNS SRV records to the fastest/closest server to their end-users and/or employees. SRV records are a type of DNS resource record method to supply a list of records to the unified communications clients (VOIP, CHAT, VOICECHAT, etc) and offer port, hostname, weight and priority with redundancy built in – much like MX (Mail) Records. When an organization has a global presence, they need these servers distributed across the globe to help reduce latency and... - Published: 2017-10-31 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondarydns-protects-your-online-business-against-dns-outages/ - Categories: General Hurricane Phillipe came into New England with a roar this past sunday, exactly 5 years after superstorm Sandy graced us with her presence in 2013. Just two days later more than 1 million homes are still without power! Many schools and businesses are still closed while the cleanup and power restoration continues and it could be several more days until the regional grid is fully restored. In some ways the power to your home is just like DNS is to your business. Without it, nothing works. No Lights (Website), No Water (Email), and so on. Things just don’t work and your home doesn’t feel much like home when nothing works. The relationship to DNS and your online business is similar. DNS is just like the electricity that powers your website, your email, your VPN, VOIP, API’s and other important aspects that make your online business run. Unplanned downtime is extremely expensive since your business can no longer sell online, customers can’t checkout and pay or even see your website for that matter. Their emails to you don’t work and bounce back... . in essence it’s a blackout of everything online costing you thousands of dollars in lost sales and opportunity. Portable and Standby generators are humming along in my neighborhood and many others across the region. These trusty devices are the backup power that many rely on when the power grid fails to deliver. In the online business world, the generator is very much like Secondary DNS. When the power... - Published: 2017-08-21 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dont-let-ddos-eclipse-your-primarydns/ - Categories: General Don’t let a DDoS attack Eclipse your DNS DDoS attacks are on the rise and the experts don’t forsee any slowdown in the near future. Attackers utilize botnets, IoT devices and other compromised systems to build cyber-armies and leverage these armies against you directly or your DNS service provider. In many cases, DD0S attacks can be fatal to small online businesses that aren’t protected. The first step to protecting your online digital business is at the infrastructure level and that means DNS. Here are a few steps you can use to protect your digital business when it comes to DNS: 1 – Don’t get caught using your “hosting or registrar” DNS DNS typically comes free with any domain you register or web hosting or domain registrar but there is a drawback to this. In most cases their DNS is much slower and less resilient when it comes to DD0S attacks. Since DNS is such a critical component to your online success, you should invest in DNS as a business strategy. This means going with Managed DNS and setting up a budget for fast, reliable DNS. Pick a managed DNS provider that uses an Anycast DNS network like CloudfloorDNS, NS1, UltraDNS, Dyn or others. These guys focus solely on DNS as a Service and run large Anycast DNS networks in the cloud. They also have DDoS mitigation in place to help thwart attacks and are typically much more fortified than your Web hosting or domain registrar DNS 2 – Backup your... - Published: 2017-02-27 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/deliver-localized-content-and-increase-online-sales-with-geo-dns/ - Categories: General - Tags: DNS Telemetry, GEO DNS, Traffic Routing, Traffic Steering UPS, FedEx and the postal service are all experts at delivering packages and they need to be as efficient as possible to ensure they maintain profitability. If they are slow and inefficient at delivering the goods, they will loose sales and have dis-satisfied customers as a result. The same goes with your online content – you need to deliver it fast and reliable or you’ll also loose customers and sales. Content accuracy also counts – If you have multiple resellers in different geographic regions you’ll also need to deliver that content accurately using the local language and currency. It’s a well known fact that localized content can give a big boost to online sales and conversions. Think about it, when was the last time you purchased from a website that wasn’t in your local language or currency? GEO DNS is an advanced component of the Cloudfloor Enterprise Anycast DNS platform. GEO DNS resolves Authoritative DNS requests by translating names into IP addresses, but goes one level deeper with a geo-location of the end user requesting the content. Once the end-user’s location is revealed, the DNS will hand back IP’s based on certain geographic rules that you set for your domain(s). You can send the user to a server closer to them or to a version of your website that has their local reseller and pricing, all in their native language. You can even use geo location and forward users to a http/s URL for services like Shopify and others with... - Published: 2017-02-23 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-hosting-backup-your-dns-with-ease/ - Categories: General Secondary DNS Hosting – DNS Backup Service DNS is such a critical component to your digital business and it’s surprising how many folks don’t realize it. DNS is often taken for granted and becomes an afterthought until it goes belly up and stops working. When DNS stops, EVERYTHING stops! Secondary DNS to the rescue! Secondary DNS is a standard method to safely backup your DNS zones onto another DNS provider/network if your primary DNS provider goes down. Secondary DNS has been around for quite some time although it’s not often implemented – even though it can save your digital bacon if you have a primary DNS outage (like the attack on Dyn back in Oct 2016) Since the Dyn DDoS attack, we’ve seen a huge influx of questions and activity around our Secondary DNS service. In order to take the mystery out of Secondary DNS, we created several techncial how-to’s on implement a Secondary DNS solution using CloudfloorDNS as your DNS backup. If you currently have a single DNS provider and are using Dyn, NS1, DNS Made Easy or GoDaddy Premium DNS we have a Secondary DNS how-to that shows you step by step on how to enable Secondary DNS hosting at CloudfloorDNS. It literally takes less than 10 minutes to setup and can save you thousands of dollars in the event of a primary DNS outage. Interested in learning how to setup Secondary DNS for your online operation? See our Secondary DNS tutorials on our Secondary DNS hosting page... - Published: 2016-10-10 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/managed-dns-prevents-dns-outages/ - Categories: General DNS has been a hot topic recently when two large companies operating online went down due to DNS outages. No matter how big or small an online organization is, they all rely on DNS to operate online since it’s a core part of internet infrastructure. With recent attacks and outages, many are starting to realize that it’s important to have a reliable DNS network or two powering your internet infrastructure – aka DNS. DNS is the one core technology that’s involved in everything your business does online, yet it’s almost always overlooked. Odd, isn’t it? It’s really the most important thing next to keeping your domain names registered and the sad truth is many businesses don’t realize this until it’s too late... . Just ask Fonality and National Australian Bank just how important DNS is. Both companies had some major DNS outages in the last few weeks that took down a bulk of their customers access to their systems. Fonality customers couldn’t make calls via their VOIP services for several hours and Australian National Bank customers couldn’t use ATM’s, Mobile Internet banking, payment processing and call centers for almost 24 hours. Outages like these not only damage the brand of the organization, but they can be very costly financially. Some of these financial losses will be from customer abandonment and opportunity lost with new customers, but the real cost is within the operation itself. Support call centers get inundated, (if customers can even reach them) and ops and marketing folks... - Published: 2016-08-29 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/fine-tune-internet-content-delivery-with-dns/ - Categories: General Fine tune your Content Delivery with DNS Today’s Internet economy is truly global and your organization can expect visitors and customers from the far corners of each continent. Servicing customers is just one aspect of your online operations, and you’ll also be connecting offices and remote employees with the tools such as Skype, GotoMeeting, VOIP, VPN and other essentials they’ll need to perform their jobs. All of these websites, VPN’s, Telephony, SaaS and Cloud based services all rely on DNS to operate and every day more companies realize the true importance of robust DNS... it really is the foundation of the Internet. Once you have a solid DNS infrastructure that you can rely on, it’s time to start utilizing the DNS to fine tune the speed and delivery of your content and online services. DNS Load Balancing and GEO DNS are just a couple of methods integrated into the CloudfloorDNS platform that help you adjust the granularity and location delivery of your content and services. DNS Load Balancing provides the ability to direct visitors to multiple IP’s or servers in a distributed fashion based on a few well known methods of balancing. You can distribute the DNS requests evenly across multiple servers, truly balancing the load so each server gets an even amount, or you can adjust the percentage to send more hits to your server with the most “beef”. Add DNS Failover and integrated server monitoring and you now can monitor response time and availability of each host and... - Published: 2016-04-22 - Modified: 2026-04-19 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-failover-low-cost-uptime-insurance/ - Categories: General - Tags: DNS Failover DNS can do some amazing things since it’s the start of all Internet traffic. Not only can DNS help provide performance and uptime, but it also has a few tricks up its sleeve such as DNS failover. DNS Failover offers you the ability to simply change a DNS entry to an alternate or backup IP address on the fly in the event of a failure on the primary. DNS Failover requires a server monitoring component that tells the DNS when to utilize the backup server. These monitors check your server or Internet resource from multiple points across the globe at regular intervals and work together to determine if there is an outage or if it’s a one time Internet “burp”. Multiple monitoring points are a critical aspect to this setup, ensuring there are no “false positives” causing a failover scenario Another critical aspect of ensuring DNS failover works is low TTL or DNS cache times. The cache time tells other DNS servers how long to store the last answer before asking again. The lower the TTL the faster your visitors will get to the backup IP upon a failure. Having low TTL’s on your DNS records can definitely cause higher QPM/QPS (DNS Queries per Minute/Second) on your account, but in many cases the advantages outweighs the costs. It costs a ton of money, time and resources to build a brand – you shouldn’t loose them from a simple server or website outage. DNS Failover can direct your customers to a... - Published: 2016-02-10 - Modified: 2025-01-06 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/cloudfloordns-netmon-integrates-with-everbridge-it-alerting/ - Categories: General Exciting new integration with Everbridge IT Alerting Platform Today we announced an exciting integration pairing our Netmon Server and Network monitoring solution with the Everbridge’s Unified Critical Communications platform. What does this mean to you and why should you care? Cloud Computing is big business and downtime can not only cost you lost revenue, but lost customers and irreversible damage to your brand. That’s why KNOWING about a failure or outage is just as important as FIXING it... The integration between these two platforms helps reduce the MTTK (Mean Time to Know) and can save an organization thousands of dollars by helping to resolve the issue faster. CloudfloorDNS Netmon Server and Network monitoring service utilizes over 15 different methods for determining a server failure or degraded application performance. When any degradation or outage is detected, the Netmon service notifies the appropriate IT or operations team via the Everbridge IT Alerting Critical Communications platform. While the appropriate teams are being notified about the outage via the Everbridge IT Alerting platform, the Netmon service can also trigger DNS Failover to redirect the resource or application to a backup server(s) until the issue is fixed. Utilizing other publishing methods within the Everbridge ITA platform, customers can also automatically update social media and other channels to keep both employees and customers in the loop. Interested in learning more about CloudfloorDNS Netmon Server and Network Monitoring? Interested in the Everbridge IT Alerting platform? CloudfloorDNS, An Everbridge Solution – https://www. CloudfloorDNS. com - Published: 2015-12-15 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/start-with-dns-to-improve-your-web-performance/ - Categories: General Many organizations are flocking to the cloud for their websites and hosted applications for increased performance. The cloud takes the chore out of provisioning servers and adds a layer of simplicity to scale out performance as the need escalates with just a few clicks. Having a large network of fast servers at the ready helps with scalability, but it’s only part of the equation to optimum web performance. DNS is often overlooked when it comes to your Internet operations performance, yet it’s often one of the most critical components in the chain when squeezing out every ounce of speed. Every web page and app have resources and objects that are required to load for the page or app to be usable. Some web pages and apps can have hundreds of these, each one taking a few milliseconds to load. Each of these resources are typically hosted on your servers and thus need a DNS request to process each item. Slow DNS means slowdowns when fetching these resources, and the end result is slow page and app rendering. Mix slow anything with today’s ever-impatient consumers and you have a problem. Today’s online visitors will wait for a second or two until they leave your site in search of the products or services they are looking for. Marketing research proves it – a slow site means a loss of clients and revenue to faster, more convenient competition. Since DNS is at the bottom of the commonly thought of technology chain when it... - Published: 2015-12-04 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/secondary-dns-your-internet-ops-backup-plan/ - Categories: General Your Internet Operations rely on DNS – an often overlooked area when it comes to enhancing both the speed and reliability of your web presence. Whether you run your own DNS server or you outsource to a Managed DNS provider, having a backup or secondary DNS provider can save your company from costly downtime if and when something happens. Secondary DNS service simply mirrors the zone files from your primary DNS server and responds to queries just like the primary. If the Primary DNS has an outage or is attacked, your secondary DNS provider handles the load. Having a redundant DNS provider may seem like a waste of money in your operations budget, but when you realize the true cost of downtime (lost sales, lost customers and brand damage), paying for a secondary DNS provider seems like a bargain. Does your company have a plan for a DNS outage? If not it’s time to think about it... . . and getting a secondary DNS provider - Published: 2015-10-09 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/speed-and-reliability-for-the-holiday-shopping-season/ - Categories: General The holiday shopping season just started and online purchasing for holiday gifts & gatherings are heating up. This is a busy season for your hosting providers and cloud companies, slinging data as fast as they can to keep up with the demand. It’s the same with DNS providers, this is one of those busy seasons when online retailers ramp up their capacity by load balancing and adding more hostnames and CPU cycles to their lineup. Some online retailers don’t realize that a customers online shopping experience all begins with DNS, and your DNS provider is a critical key to not only answering DNS, but doing it smart and fast. When a prospective customer wants to browse your online offerings, they type in your domain name. This then triggers searches on DNS from the client computer to their IP, to the Root servers, the TLD server and eventually to your DNS host (Such as CloudfloorDNS, or possibly your Web Host such as GoDaddy, Rackspace, etc) The faster your DNS host answers, the faster that customer can load their browser up with your catalog of products and services. Imagine if you had slow DNS answering for your domain and thousands of customers trying to hit your site. Each second adds up and the average person today won’t wait more than a few seconds to see a page load. An Error comes up and they are gone and off to a competitor. Not only can sales and valuable revenue be lost, but customer... - Published: 2015-08-27 - Modified: 2025-05-07 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dns-is-the-foundation-of-your-internet-presence/ - Categories: General DNS – The Foundation of your Internet Presence I’ve been in the DNS and Domain name business for almost 20 years now and explaining what DNS is and how important it is has always been a struggle. As critical as DNS is, it’s an underlying Internet technology that not many people pay too much attention to – until it’s not working. During all those years in my career I’ve struggled for a quick and simple way to explain what DNS is and it’s importance in the chain of Internet technology. This graphic above really sums up the importance of DNS and how it acts as the foundation of your online presence. Sit back and think about your Internet presence as a house or building that contains your web server, email servers, FTP server, API, VOIP Phone system etc. This house of yours relies on two things; your domain name and DNS before any other service can be setup. Your domain name is just like the plot of land you build on – without your parcel of land, you have nowhere to build. The domain name must be registered and in good standing (Not expired) before anything will work. Once you have your domain name, you can start to build the foundation before you can build your house. If your foundation is weak and unreliable, your house can crumble to the ground. This foundation is your DNS – a reliable way of answering queries to your domain name and pointing visitors... - Published: 2015-08-06 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/dont-get-yourself-in-a-bind-with-your-dns-2/ - Categories: General BIND is the world’s most popular DNS server – serving a large portion of the Internet due to it’s open source model and free distribution. This DNS software is a wonderful benefit for the Internet community, but also something that requires care and affection. Just last week, a major flaw (CVE-2015-5477) was discovered in BIND DNS Version 9. X that could allow a single lone wolf attacker (An Internet “bad guy”) to take down a large number of domain entities across the internet with an easy to execute malformed query. All it takes is a push of the button and your domain and all of your online resources could become virtually crippled. Fortunately, CloudfloorDNS uses a proprietary DNS system that is not vulnerable to these BIND attacks/exploits. This story isn’t about BIND per se – its about not placing your organization at risk by using DNS smarter. How so? It’s simple. There are two options. One, use an Authoritative DNS Provider that isn’t susceptible to the same risks that some open source software can present. Two, add a non open source Authoritative DNS Provider to your delegation along with your existing provider that may use open source Name Server software. Having dual Authoritative DNS providers will mitigate risk by not allowing your Internet presence to be threatened by open source vulnerabilities and it also offers additional geographic redundancy. This may sound over the top, but if your business relies on a single organization that uses open source software only, and... - Published: 2015-07-01 - Modified: 2024-10-09 - URL: https://www.cloudfloordns.com/its-a-great-day-for-dns/ - Categories: General Yesterday was a great day for DNS with Cisco buying recursive DNS provider OpenDNS. I received many emails from friends and colleagues relaying the news to me and they were almost as excited as I was. They all know I have built my career around providing DNS services to companies across the globe and this news was just good for DNS in general. In light of all this attention to DNS yesterday, I saw a common theme amongst all the emails – most everyone thinks there is just one type of DNS and lump us all into the same category. That’s not the case and here’s why: There are two main types of DNS servers – Recursive and Authoritative. OpenDNS acts as a RECURSIVE service, allows computers all over the world to ask OpenDNS where a domain name resides (on what IP address). In order to truly understand what’s happening and why there are two main types of DNS servers, we have to go back to examine what happens when you browse to “google. com” on your laptop, tablet or smartphone or open a cloud-based app. When you lookup a website in your browser or open an app on your smartphone, there is a ton of DNS activity that goes on to make all the magic happen. There are requests and responses for websites, images, video,etc. A Recursive server does most of the first answering, and they ask other authoritative DNS servers for the answers. Those servers respond back to...