SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to numerous servers at a time, each and every server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

If you host a domain name within a hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you'll be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much easier to create a new record compared to other hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you would like clients to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record can be created in a matter of seconds for every single domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very easy-to-use interface, so you will 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'll be able to set up records via the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record will be active soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You could change any of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain active if changed or removed, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.