SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domains that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it takes to create 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 and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless of course the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new SRV record for every domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than a few mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool within your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you can create any record that you need and as soon as you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll have to insert the record value, the protocol, the service along with the port number and you'll be ready. Additionally, if the other company requires it, you are also going to be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you've got lots of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a specific service. You could also specify how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.