SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a particular service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at once, each server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domains which you host within a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as 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 only minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a really intuitive interface and all it will take 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 plus 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 stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you modify it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As we understand how aggravating it may be to manage DNS records, we'll provide you with an easy-to-use DNS management instrument as a part of our custom Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain names inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record without any troubles. We have a step-by-step guide, that will make things so much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to enter the details that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to change the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value reveals the time the record will continue existing after it's edited or erased.