SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different providers and direct 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 machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but forward 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 you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a highly user-friendly interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except if the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to be active if you modify it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As we acknowledge how irritating it may be to deal with DNS records, we are going to give you an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as part of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from us, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record without any issues. We've got a step-by-step guide, that'll make things much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to enter the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific instructions to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but normally the default 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 erased.