SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to many servers simultaneously, each and every server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

If you host a domain address inside a website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to work with interface makes it more simple to set up a new record in comparison with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will simply have to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you may set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you want users to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If you're not requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because we know how frustrating it can be to handle DNS records, we are going to give you an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as part of our custom Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain addresses in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you will be able to create an SRV record without difficulties. We've got a step-by-step guide, that will make things so much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll need to type in the info that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value indicates the time the record will continue existing after it's edited or removed.