SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and forward it to many servers at a time, each and every server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used 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 address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name added in it are managed by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need with ease, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia CP and as soon as you log in to your website hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll simply need to fill several boxes with the necessary info and your new SRV record is going to be active within a few hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If necessary, you can also modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it'll remain active after you change or remove it. The standard TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A brand new SRV record can be created in just seconds for every single domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to set up records using the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to change any one of the two if the other company has asked you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain live if changed or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.