SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to a number of servers at a time, each server managing 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 2 records that 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 a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You're going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host in a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that 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 be active if you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new SRV record for every single domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than just a few clicks via a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you can create any record that you need and once you pick SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to enter the service, the protocol, the record value along with the port number and you will be set. Optionally, in case 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 two options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a specific service. Also, you can specify how long the newly created SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.