SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different companies and point it to several servers at once, each server managing a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain names you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as 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 just minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a really 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 will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave except when 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 be active in case you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a brand new SRV record for every domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than a couple of mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record you need and when you select SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to enter the service, the protocol, the record value along with the port number and you will be all set. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you are also going to 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 have a great deal of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a specific service. Also, you can define how long the newly created 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.