SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to many servers simultaneously, each server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a very user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up 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 default values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires 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 change it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new SRV record for any domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will take no more than a few mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record you need and when you select SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must enter the service, the protocol, the record value as well as the port number and you will be set. Furthermore, if the other service provider requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values in case they have to be different from the default 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 lot of servers for a particular service. Also, you can specify how long the newly created SRV record will remain active if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.