SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different providers and direct it to numerous servers at once, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host a domain name in a cloud website hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will only have to fill a couple of boxes and you will be set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want clients to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A completely new SRV record may be created in just seconds for every domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even if you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may create records through the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol info in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You can change any one of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain working if edited or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.