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 an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to numerous servers at a time, every single server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the very same service, but forward 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 instance, 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 Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain included in it are controlled by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your web hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you will simply need to fill a couple of boxes with the required information and your new SRV record will be active within several hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it's going to remain active after you edit or delete it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new SRV record for every domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than a couple of clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to type in the service, the protocol, the record value as well as the port number and you will be set. Additionally, in case the other company requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values in case 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 have a number of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. Also, you can outline how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.