SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and direct it to many servers at the same time, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You will be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any of the domains that you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a rather intuitive interface and all it takes 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 standard values, which you can leave except when the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you change it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record can be created in just seconds for every single domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records via the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol info as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You may change any one of the two in case the other provider has asked you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain working if edited or deleted, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.