SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a specific service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to many servers at the same time, each and every server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set individual 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 use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

If you host a domain in a hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks inside the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you'll be all set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you would like customers to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an added option, you may choose how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new SRV record for each and every domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than a couple of clicks through a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool in your Hepsia web hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and when you select SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to type in the record value, the service, the protocol along with the port number and you'll be set. Furthermore, in case the other company requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values in case they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you have a lot of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. You may also define how long the newly created SRV record will remain active in case you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.