SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to several servers at a time, each server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the 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 example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain name added in it are managed by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and as soon as you sign in to your website hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll only have to fill a couple of boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record will be active within several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use plus 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 requires. If required, you can also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it will remain active after you edit or erase it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you will be able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new SRV record for every domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than just a few clicks using a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you can create any record that you need and once you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to enter the record value, the protocol, the service and the port number and you'll be all set. Furthermore, 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 default value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you have a number of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a given service. Also, you can define how long the new SRV record will remain active if you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.