SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use 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 providers and direct it to many servers at the same time, each server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

If you host a domain in a web hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to set up a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to work with interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will simply 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 and the weight. For the last two you may set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you would like clients to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you may choose how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a completely new SRV record for every domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than just a few mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you could make any record you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to enter the record value, the service, the protocol and the port number and you'll be set. Additionally, if the other company requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a specific service. You can also outline how long the new SRV record will remain active if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.