SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to many servers at once, each and every server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You'll be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domains that you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very user-friendly 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 as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As we realize how aggravating it could be to handle DNS records, we will offer you an easy-to-use DNS management tool as a part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so when you host your domains inside a semi-dedicated server account from us, you will be able to create an SRV record with no complications. We've got a step-by-step guide, which will make things that much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll have to type in the info 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 / or the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value reveals the time the record will keep existing after it is modified or erased.