SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and direct it to several servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domain names which you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given 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 that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a really user-friendly interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will 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 when the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As we know how aggravating it may be to deal with DNS records, we will give you an easy-to-use DNS management instrument as part of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so when 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 difficulties. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things even easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to type in the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to change the priority and / or the weight values, you can leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live within a matter of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) may also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value displays the time the record will continue existing after it's modified or deleted.