SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different companies and direct it to numerous servers simultaneously, each server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on 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 name added in it are handled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your web hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you'll only have to fill a couple of boxes with the required info and your new SRV record is going to be active within several hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number you'd like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. If needed, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it is going to remain active after you edit or delete it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a brand new SRV record for every domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record that 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 protocol, the service along with the port number and you will be ready. Optionally, in case 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've got a great deal of possibilities if you use many servers for a given service. Also, you can outline how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.