Technical FAQs


Detailed answers on data retention, metadata logging, and our non-storage proxy design for security and compliance teams.

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🔒 QuotaGuard Technical FAQs

Why Does QuotaGuard Provide Customers Two IP Addresses?

To provide a high availability service, we provide customers a primary and secondary static IP address.

If one IP address should become unreachable, then our load balancer will direct traffic through the other IP address until we have resolved the problem and reinstated the failed IP.

Please allow-list both IP addresses as traffic may route through either one at any time.

Will My Static IP Addresses Change?

Your Static IP Address will not change unless you ask us to make a change. We use Amazon Elastic IPs which are permanently reserved.

If our service associated with an IP fails, we restart the service with the same IP instantly. As your requests go via our load balancer, this underlying change will be transparent to you.

If Amazon changes their Elastic IP policy (or we need to change IP address for any other reason), we will inform you well ahead of time.

How Does QuotaGuard Handle Proxying HTTPS connections?

Q: How does QuotaGuard handle proxying HTTPS connections? Is it accurate that Quotaguard Static has HTTPS connections to Heroku? If not, that would mean our traffic would be unencrypted between QuotaGuard’s servers and Heroku?

Customers can choose to have their SSL certificates loaded into our proxy servers so that we can support HTTPS for them. This is easily configurable in our QuotaGuard dashboard.

For better security, we recommend QuotaGuard Shield, see the reasons why Shield is more secure at Why is QG Shield More Secure than QG Static?

Can we request longer time-outs for slow connections?

Yes, we know some connections don’t receive a response for a while, so we’ve added the ability to request longer time outs for each account.

If you need a longer time out, please reach out to us at Support.

How Does The Free Trial Work?

There’s no risk and no obligation. You can cancel your subscriptions and account at any time.

We allow a free trial of one subscription, multiple additional subscriptions will be charged at the time of creation.

Please note : Canceled subscriptions and accounts can not be brought back, you would need to subscribe to a new account with new Static IPs.

Is There a Minimum Commitment?

None. We want QuotaGuard to be business, engineer, and weekend hacker friendly.

After the free trial, you will be billed for your first month of usage. If you cancel, your account will be removed and you will not be billed in the future.

What Analytics are Available?

We currently retain the number of hits you make to each API at various granularities.

Via your dashboard you can see a real-time view of 12 months of daily data, 7 days of hourly data and 24 hours of minute-by-minute data.

What Is Your Support SLA?

As a North American-based business we offer front-line support between 9am and 5pm EST on regular business days, not including holidays.

Support e-mails are usually answered within a few hours during this period.

Emergency support out of hours is undertaken on a best effort basis, but we pride ourselves on our service reliability and response time.

Any time we can assist our customers, we try to make the effort to help them.

What About Privacy, Security, and Data Retention Questions?

Great questions, please head over to our Privacy, Security, and Data Retention FAQ for answers.

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