SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different companies and direct it to numerous servers simultaneously, each server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain name within a cloud hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be all 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 2 you could set any value between 1 and 100 based upon which server you would like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can choose 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. Unless requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A new SRV record may be created in just seconds for any domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to set up records through the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record will be active shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may change each of the two in case the other provider has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain live if edited or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.