SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

If you host a domain address in a website 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 just a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you'll be ready. 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 2 you may set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like clients to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a brand new SRV record for any domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will take no more than a couple of clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you could make any record you need and once you select SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll have to type in the record value, the service, the protocol and the port number and you will be all set. Optionally, in case the other service provider requires it, you are also going to be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got quite a lot of possibilities if you use many servers for a particular service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.