SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from a site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to several servers at once, each and every server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses which you host in a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly 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 standard values, which you could leave unless the other provider demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a brand new SRV record for each and every domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than just a few mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to input the service, the protocol, the record value and also the port number and you'll be all set. Furthermore, in case the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you've got lots of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. Also, you can define how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.