SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to a number of servers at the same time, each and every server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain names that you host inside a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record which you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather 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 plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave except if the other provider needs 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 modify it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record can be created in just seconds for each and every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even when you 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 a part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You have to type the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be live right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may change each of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain live if edited or removed, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.