SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to numerous servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a different 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 may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a cloud hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like clients to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can pick how long this record is going to 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 requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A brand new SRV record could be created within seconds for every domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even if you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to create records through the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol information plus the record value in them and the new record is going to be live soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You'll be able to adjust each of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain active if edited or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.