SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to several servers at a time, every single server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain added in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your website hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you will simply have to fill a couple of boxes with the required data and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If necessary, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it'll remain active after you change or remove it. The default TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A brand new SRV record can be created in a matter of seconds for each domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records through 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 type the service, port number and protocol details as well as the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You can change each of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain functioning if edited or removed, may also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.