SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and forward it to several servers simultaneously, each server managing a different service. You'll be 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 which are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You're going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses which you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia features a highly intuitive interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus 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 is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you edit it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you are going to be able to use our easy to work with DNS management tool, which is a part of the in-house developed Hepsia hosting CP. It is going to give you a very simple interface to create a new record for every single domain address hosted in the account, so if you need to use a domain address for any purpose, you can set up a new SRV record with a couple of clicks. Through basic text boxes, you will have to enter the service, protocol and port number details, which you ought to have from the company offering you the service. Additionally, you'll be able to choose what priority and weight the record will have if you are going to use a couple or more machines for the very same service. The default value for them is 10, but you could set any other value between 1 and 100 if necessary. Moreover, you'll 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 erase it or modify it.