SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to numerous 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 single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

If you host a domain address within a hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will simply have to fill a few boxes and you'll be set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you may set any value in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an additional option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. Unless requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record may be created in a matter of seconds for any domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can set up records with the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be live right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may change each of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain working if changed or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.