SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different providers and direct it to many servers at the same time, every single server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain name within a cloud 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 a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require 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 in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you'd like clients to access first or what instructions the other company 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, that’s measured in seconds. If not required otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record can be created within seconds for any domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features 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 create records using the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol information along with the record value in them and the new record will be working right 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 each of the two in case 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 deleted, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.