SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and point it to numerous servers at the same time, each and every server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You are going to be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly interface and all it will require to create 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 as well as 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 needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because we know how aggravating it could be to manage DNS records, we will offer you an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as part of our custom Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to set up an SRV record without any complications. We also have a step-by-step guide, which will make things even easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will have to input the details that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to change the priority and / or the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value displays the time the record will continue existing after it is modified or deleted.