SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a specific service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different companies and point it to several servers simultaneously, each and every server managing 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 even set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a shared 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 clicks inside the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be all set. This includes the protocol and 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 users 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 edit 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 Servers

A new SRV record may be created in just seconds for any domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very 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 are able to set up records using the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to change each of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain functioning if edited or erased, may also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.