SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a specific service different from a website. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to several servers at a time, each and every server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but point 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 real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain name within a cloud hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to create a new record in comparison to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll 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 two you may set any value between 1 and 100 based upon which server you would like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an extra option, you may choose how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since we understand how irritating it may be to manage DNS records, we will present you with an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so when you host your domain names inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to create an SRV record without any problems. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things that much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll need to type in the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to change the priority and the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live in a matter of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value indicates the time the record will continue existing after it's changed or deleted.