SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to several servers at a time, each server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You are going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses which you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up 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 also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except if the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you modify it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Because we understand how annoying it can be to deal with DNS records, we'll present you with an easy-to-use DNS management tool as a part of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to create an SRV record with no complications. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you will have to enter the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific instructions to change the priority and the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your new record will go live within a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value reveals the time the record will continue existing after it is changed or erased.