SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to many servers simultaneously, each server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domains you host in a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it will require to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except if the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A brand new SRV record may be created within seconds for each domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records using the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be active shortly after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You'll be able to change any one of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain active if edited or removed, may also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.