SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to a number of servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but forward 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 a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless of course the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active if you change it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a brand new SRV record for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool inside your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to create any record you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to enter the record value, the protocol, the service and also the port number and you will be set. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you will have numerous possibilities if you use many servers for a particular service. You may also define how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.