SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to a number of servers at once, every single server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You are going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domain names which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it requires 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 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 company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals 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

Since we acknowledge how irritating it may be to manage DNS records, we'll offer you an easy-to-use DNS management tool as an element of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain names inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to set up an SRV record without troubles. We have a step-by-step guide, which will make things so much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll need to enter the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to change the priority and the weight values, you can leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value indicates the time the record will continue existing after it is modified or removed.