SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to numerous servers at a time, each and every server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the exact 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 example, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

In case you have a shared web hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address added in it are handled by our system, you'll be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you sign in to your website hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you'll only need to fill several boxes with the required info and your new SRV record is going to be active in a few hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number you'd like to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If needed, you can also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it's going to remain active after you edit or delete it. The default TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a brand new SRV record for every single domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than a couple of mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool in your Hepsia web hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must enter the record value, the protocol, the service along with the port number and you will be all set. In addition, if the other service provider requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got lots of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. Also, you can specify how long the new SRV record will remain active 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.