SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to numerous servers at the same time, each server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain included in it are managed by our system, you are going to be able to set up any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you sign in to your hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you will only have to fill a couple of boxes with the required information and your new SRV record will be active in a couple of hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If needed, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it's going to remain active after you edit or remove it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A brand new SRV record can be created in a matter of seconds for each and every domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could set up records via the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be live soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any one of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain working if changed or deleted, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.