SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain with different providers and point it to numerous servers at once, every single server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain in 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 only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared to other hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will simply need to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you would like users to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an additional option, you may 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. If not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new SRV record for each and every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and when you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to insert the record value, the protocol, the service and also the port number and you'll be ready. Optionally, in case the other service provider requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you have a number of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. You may also determine how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.