SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you can use the domain with different providers and point it to many servers simultaneously, 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 will never be any interference. You may as well set individual 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 address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a highly intuitive interface and all it will take to set up 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 and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since we know how aggravating it may be to manage DNS records, we will provide you with an easy-to-use DNS management tool as a part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domains within a semi-dedicated server account from us, you will be able to create an SRV record with no difficulties. We have a step-by-step guide, that will make things much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to type in the info that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to modify the priority and the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your brand 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 normally the default value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value reveals the time the record will keep existing after it's edited or deleted.