SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to a number of servers at a time, every single server managing a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 actual software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host inside a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly user-friendly interface and all it takes 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 default values, which you could leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you modify it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since we understand how irritating it may be to deal with DNS records, we are going to offer you an easy-to-use DNS management instrument as an element of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so when you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll be able to create an SRV record without difficulties. We've got a step-by-step guide, which will make things much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll have to enter the information that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific instructions to change the priority and the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value indicates the time the record will keep existing after it's changed or removed.