SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain name 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 customer of yours will use depends on 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 added in it are managed by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and when you sign in to your hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes with the required information and your new SRV record will be active within several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. When required, you can also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it is going to remain active after you modify or remove it. The default TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you’re able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a brand new SRV record for each and every domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than several mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you can create any record that you need and when you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to insert the record value, the protocol, the service along with the port number and you'll be set. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you are also going to be able to set the weight and priority values in case they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. You could also specify how long the new SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.