SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to many servers at a time, each and every server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different 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 name 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 customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a shared website hosting account from our company and we handle 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 section of your Hepsia CP. Our user-friendly interface makes it much easier to set up a new record in comparison with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be all set. This includes the protocol and 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 based on which server you would like clients to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an added option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

By using a semi-dedicated server solution from our company, you'll be able to use our user-friendly DNS administration tool, which is a part of the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting CP. It will offer you a rather simple interface to create a new record for every single domain hosted within the account, so if you need to use a domain address for any purpose, you can create a completely new SRV record with only a couple of mouse clicks. Using very simple text boxes, you'll need to input the service, protocol and port number information, which you ought to have from the company providing you the service. Also, you are going to be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you are going to use a couple or more machines for the exact same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 if needed. Furthermore, you have the option to change the TTL value from the standard 3600 seconds to a various different value - thus setting the time this record will be active in the global DNS system after you remove it or edit it.