SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to a number of servers at a time, every single server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also 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. With 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 several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a domain within a shared website hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes and you will be all set. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you may set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you'd like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an added option, you can pick how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record may be created within just seconds for any domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll 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 could create records through the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be active soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could adjust any of the two in case the other provider has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain functioning if edited or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.