SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to several servers at the same time, every single server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive 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 can leave except if 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 remain active when you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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