SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and forward it to many servers simultaneously, every single server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You will be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses you host within a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a really 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 and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless of course the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record can be created within seconds for each and every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records with the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info 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 can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You'll be able to change each of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain functioning if edited or removed, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.