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 number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain address 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 companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address added in it are handled by our system, you will be able to set up any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you will simply need to fill several boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. When required, you may also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it will remain active after you modify or delete it. The default TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a brand new SRV record for every single domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than a few clicks using a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool within your Hepsia hosting CP, you can create any record that you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to type in the record value, the service, the protocol as well as the port number and you will be set. Additionally, if the other company requires it, you'll also 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 will have a great deal of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.