SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to several servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain address inside a shared hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to work with interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will only need to fill a few boxes and you will be all set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like users to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you may choose how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If not asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record can be created within just seconds for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to set up records via the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol information in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to change any of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain working if changed or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.