SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You will be able to set up a new SRV record for each of the domains you host in a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except if the other provider needs 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 Hosting

Since we understand how annoying it can be to manage DNS records, we will provide you with an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as a part of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain names within a semi-dedicated server account from us, you're going to be able to create an SRV record without problems. We've got a step-by-step guide, which will make things that much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to type in the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live in a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but usually the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value reveals the time the record will keep existing after it is modified or deleted.