SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to many servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a really intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave except when the other company demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As we recognize how annoying it could be to manage DNS records, we'll present you with an easy-to-use DNS management tool as part of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so when you host your domains within a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to set up an SRV record with no problems. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll have to type in the info that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live in a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value shows the time the record will keep existing after it is edited or removed.