SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to numerous servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but direct 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 instance, and have the actual 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've set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain inside a shared hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to set up a new record in comparison with other hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply 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 two you may set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like customers to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can pick how long this record will be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. Unless requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a completely new SRV record for every single domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia website 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 enter the record value, the protocol, the service and the port number and you'll be set. Optionally, if 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 two options is from 1 to 100, so you will have lots of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. You may also outline how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.