SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to many servers at once, each server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

If you host a domain in a web hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks within the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much easier to set up a new record in comparison to other hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. 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 users to access first or what instructions the other company 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, that’s measured in seconds. Unless requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A completely new SRV record may be created within just seconds for any domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll 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 could create records via the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to type the service, port number and protocol info as well as the record value in them and the new record will be active soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may adjust any of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain working if edited or erased, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.