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 address with different providers and forward it to many servers at once, every single server handling a separate service. You could 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 two records that are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to create a completely new SRV record for any one of the domains you host in a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it will require 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 standard values, which you can leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With a semi-dedicated server solution from our company, you're going to be able to take advantage of our easy to work with DNS administration tool, that is a part of the in-house designed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It will offer you a very simple user interface to set up a new record for each and every domain hosted inside the account, so if you would like to use a domain address for any purpose, you can set up a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks. Through very simple text boxes, you will have to enter the service, protocol and port number info, which you must have from the company offering you the service. Furthermore, you will be able to choose what priority and weight the record will have if you are planning to use a couple or more machines for the very same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you could set any other value between 1 and 100 if needed. In addition, you'll have the option to adjust the TTL value from the default 3600 seconds to a various different value - in this way setting the time this record will be live in the global DNS system after you remove it or change it.