SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to several servers at the same time, each server managing a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a new SRV record for each of the domain names you host within a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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 standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires 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 change it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a brand new SRV record for any domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than just a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool in your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll have to insert the service, the protocol, the record value and also the port number and you'll be set. Additionally, in case the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you have numerous possibilities if you use many servers for a given service. You may also determine how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.