SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to several servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Provided you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address included in it are managed by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need with ease, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia CP and when you log in to your website hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you will only have to fill a couple of boxes with the required information and your new SRV record is going to be active within several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you can also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it is going to remain active after you modify or remove it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record can be created in a matter of seconds for any domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to set up records via the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol info in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be working soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to change any of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or removed, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.