SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a particular service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to several servers simultaneously, each server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used 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 address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You'll be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except when the other company 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 edit it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A new SRV record can be created in a matter of seconds for every single domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could create records via the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol information along with the record value in them and the new record will be working right after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to adjust any one of the two if the other provider has asked you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.