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 number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to numerous servers at a time, each and every server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 that you have set.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

You'll be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domain addresses that you host in a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a highly user-friendly interface and all it will take to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave except when the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As we recognize how irritating it could be to handle DNS records, we're going to offer you an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as part of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so when you host your domains within a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to create an SRV record with no issues. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things so much easier. Using an intuitive 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 may leave these two options as they are and your new record will go live in a matter 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 most records. This value reveals the time the record will keep existing after it's changed or erased.