SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to many servers at a time, each and every server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You'll be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domains you host in a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them effortlessly in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia features a highly intuitive interface and all it takes to create 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 could leave unless of course the other company demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since we understand how annoying it could be to handle DNS records, we are going to provide you with an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as an element of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so when you host your domain addresses within a semi-dedicated server account from us, you're going to be able to create an SRV record without any difficulties. We've got a step-by-step guide, that'll make things so much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to type in the information that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific directions to change the priority and the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) may also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value displays the time the record will continue existing after it is changed or deleted.