SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and direct it to numerous servers at the same time, each server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different 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 or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain added in it are controlled by our system, you'll be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you sign in to your hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill several boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record will be active within several hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. When required, you may also modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it'll remain active after you modify or remove it. The standard TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a completely new SRV record for every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool within your Hepsia web hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and when you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to insert the service, the protocol, the record value and the port number and you will be ready. In addition, if the other service provider 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 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you will have numerous possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a specific service. Also, you can determine how long the newly created 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.