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 an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to many servers at a time, every single server managing a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

Provided you have a shared hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain included in it are controlled by our system, you'll be able to set up any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia CP and as soon as you sign in to your hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes with the required information and your new SRV record will be active within a few hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If necessary, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it's going to remain active after you change or delete it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new SRV record for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than several mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia hosting CP, you could make 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'll have to insert the record value, the service, the protocol as well as the port number and you will be ready. Additionally, in case the other service provider requires it, you're also going to 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 these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a number of possibilities if you use many servers for a given service. Also, you can determine 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.