SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to a number of servers at once, every single server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ 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 providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain address in a shared hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to set up a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much easier to create a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. 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 could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want users to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an added option, you can pick how long this record will be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A brand new SRV record could be created in just seconds for each domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to create records through the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol details plus the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any one of the two if the other provider has asked you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or removed, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.