SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to a number of servers simultaneously, every single server managing a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but point 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 actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will only need to fill a couple of boxes and you will 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 2 you may set any value between 1 and 100 based upon which server you want users to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an additional option, you can choose how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since we acknowledge how aggravating it could be to handle DNS records, we are going to present you with an easy-to-use DNS management tool as part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so when you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to create an SRV record without any issues. We've got a step-by-step guide, that'll make things even easier. Using an intuitive interface, you will need to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to change the priority and the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live within a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the default 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.