SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different companies and forward it to many servers at the same time, each server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain inside a shared hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much easier to set up a new record in comparison with other hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be all set. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you can set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an additional option, you may choose how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a completely new SRV record for any domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than a few mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia web hosting CP, you can create any record you need and when you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll have to insert the service, the protocol, the record value as well as the port number and you'll be set. Furthermore, if the other company requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you have numerous possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a particular service. You can also define how long the newly created SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.