SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to many servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various 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 Shared Website Hosting

You'll be able to set up a new SRV record for each of the domains that you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave except if the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With a semi-dedicated server solution from us, you'll be able to take advantage of our easy to navigate DNS administration tool, that is a part of the in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It'll give you a quite simple user interface to set up a new record for any domain name hosted inside the account, so if you wish to use a domain for any purpose, you can create a completely new SRV record with a couple of clicks. Using basic text boxes, you'll need to type in the service, protocol and port number info, which you must have from the company offering you the service. In addition, you are going to be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you are planning to use a couple or more machines for the same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you could set any other value between 1 and 100 when necessary. Moreover, you'll have the option to adjust the TTL value from the standard 3600 seconds to a various different value - thus setting the time this record will be live in the global DNS system after you delete it or change it.