SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain included in it are managed by our system, you'll be able to create any record that you need with ease, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and once you log in to your website hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you will simply have to fill a few boxes with the required info and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. When required, you may also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it will remain active after you change or remove it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you can 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 within seconds for every domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to set up records using the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol details plus the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You are able to change each of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or removed, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.