SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to many servers at a time, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a domain inside a shared website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our user-friendly interface makes it more simple to set up a new record in comparison to other hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will only have to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you can set any value between 1 and 100 based upon which server you want users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can choose how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If not required otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new SRV record for every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than several mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and once you select SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to input the record value, the service, the protocol and the port number and you will be set. Additionally, 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 default value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.