SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to numerous servers at a time, every single server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

If you host a domain in a web hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As we acknowledge how irritating it can be to manage DNS records, we are going to offer you an easy-to-use DNS management tool as an element of our custom Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to create an SRV record with no problems. We have a step-by-step guide, that'll make things even easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll have to enter the information that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific instructions to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live within a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but normally the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value shows the time the record will keep existing after it's modified or erased.