SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different providers and direct it to many servers at once, each server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address added in it are handled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and as soon as you log in to your website hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you will simply need to fill a couple of boxes with the necessary information and your new SRV record is going to be active in 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 would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. If needed, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it's going to remain active after you modify or erase it. The standard 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 Servers

With a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to benefit from our easy to work with DNS management tool, which is a part of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. It is going to give you a quite simple user interface to set up a new record for each domain name hosted within the account, so if you wish to use a domain name for any purpose, you could create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks. Through basic text boxes, you will have to type in the service, protocol and port number details, which you ought to have from the company providing you the service. Moreover, you're going to be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you intend to use a couple or more machines for the exact same service. The default value for them is 10, but you could set any other value between 1 and 100 when necessary. In addition, you have the option to adjust the TTL value from the standard 3600 seconds to a various different value - in this way setting the time this record will be active in the global DNS system after you delete it or edit it.