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

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for any one of the domains you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia comes with 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 is going to 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 provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Using a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you are going to be able to take advantage of our easy to work with DNS management tool, which is a part of the in-house designed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It is going to give you a quite simple interface to set up a new record for each domain name hosted inside the account, so if you need to use a domain address for any purpose, you could create a brand new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks. Using very simple text boxes, you will need to type in the service, protocol and port number information, which you should have from the company offering you the service. Furthermore, you're going to be able to choose what priority and weight the record will have if you're going to use a couple or more machines for the exact same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 when necessary. Moreover, you have the option to change the TTL value from the standard 3600 seconds to any other value - in this way setting the time this record will be active in the global DNS system after you remove it or change it.