SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to several servers at a 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 could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host a domain address in a cloud web 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 a few clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will only have to fill a few boxes and you will be all set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want customers to access first or what instructions 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 not requested otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since we know how frustrating it may be to handle DNS records, we're going to give you an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as a part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you are going to be able to create an SRV record without any problems. We have a step-by-step guide, that'll make things even easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will have to type in the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but typically the default value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value shows the time the record will continue existing after it's edited or erased.