SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to several servers simultaneously, each server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Hosting

If you host a domain in a hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it more simple to create a new record in comparison to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll only have to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be 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 two you may set any value 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 added option, you may choose how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If you're not asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A brand new SRV record may be created in a matter of seconds for each domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create 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 an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol details along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be active soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to change each of the two in case the other provider has required you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain working if changed or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.