SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to many servers at a time, each server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ 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 companies. Which one a customer 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 create a new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it will require to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave except when the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows 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

A new SRV record may be created in a matter of seconds for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could 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 type the service, port number and protocol details along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational shortly after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to adjust any one of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain working if edited or removed, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.