UltraDNS
UltraDNS SiteBacker
UltraDNS SiteBacker continually monitors both primary and standby servers from multiple sites within UltraDNS’s global Managed DNS infrastructure.
Monitoring and failover service
Vercara UltraDNS® SiteBacker is a cost-effective monitoring and failover solution for companies of all sizes. Unlike competing solutions, SiteBacker requires no additional dedicated hardware or software and can be quickly deployed with minimal effort. Furthermore, it scales seamlessly to meet the growing demands of both local and global infrastructures.
Leveraging best-in-class DNS infrastructure
The SiteBacker service leverages the UltraDNS Managed DNS infrastructure, a carrier-class DNS services platform that supports a significant portion of key domains on the Internet. Monitoring agents at multiple locations across the globe continually perform standard protocol or transaction-based testing against preselected servers. Each server is monitored by multiple agents to assure testing integrity. If pre-configured thresholds for the number of probes and locations confirming a particular test has failed are exceeded, SiteBacker concludes the corresponding server is down and initiates server failover. This failover mechanism involves automatically modifying the DNS response record for the monitored server. In addition, an email alert is sent to a list of predetermined contacts. When the server is restored to service, SiteBacker automatically recognizes the server’s online status and restores it to in-service by replacing the DNS response record with the original one.
Features
- Maximizes site availability
and reliability - Highly cost effective
- Quick and seamless deployment
- No additional dedicated
equipment - Secured with DNSSEC
Benefits
- Monitoring and failover service
- Fully integrated within your DNS infrastructure
- Traffic Management – Secured by DNSSEC ellipic curve cryptography
- Complete control via web-based management portal or REST API
- Real-time email notification of server failures
- 24/7/365 UltraDNS support
How UltraDNS SiteBacker works
In the event of a potential outage or server downtime, SiteBacker’s monitoring and probing agents will send an automated alert notifying you of the issue. SiteBacker will then automatically redirect traffic to the designated disaster recovery server(s) on standby. When the issue is resolved, traffic will redirect back to the primary server.
A managed DNS service you control
Offering cloud-based DNS services with unmatched performance, availability, and security features, including built-in DDoS protection.
Sitebacker support:
- Responds with single resource records or resource record sets
- Response determined by configured prioritization
- Sub-pools enable complex configurations combining SiteBacker, Traffic Controller and Directional DNS
- Manual override of automated health checks
Sitebacker deployment:
- Manual failover function for emergency situations
- Scheduled failover for planned maintenance
- Delayed failover and restoration
- Monitoring and notification service only; monitoring a connection to a database or other back-end system via transaction/content probe
Monitoring capabilities:
- Continually monitors both primary and standby servers from multiple sites within UltraDNS’s global Managed DNS infrastructure
- Capable of monitoring any service on the public Internet Natively supports standard protocols, including ICMP, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, TCP, and transaction/content
- Supports custom or proprietary ports