SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to numerous servers at the same time, each and every server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host within a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it takes to set up 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, that you can leave unless of course the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you modify it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a completely new SRV record for each and every domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than several clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must type in the record value, the protocol, the service and also the port number and you will be ready. Furthermore, 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 standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got quite a lot of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. Also, you can define how long the new SRV record will remain live if you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.