SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to several servers simultaneously, each and every server managing a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domains that you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia features a rather intuitive interface and all it takes to set up 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 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 demands different ones. TTL stands 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 remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record could be created in just seconds for every single domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really 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 create records using the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to type the service, port number and protocol details along with the record value in them and the new record will be working soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You are able to change any of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or deleted, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.