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 creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and direct it to a number of servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but forward 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 several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting we offer, gives you an easy means to set up any DNS record you require for a domain address or a subdomain inside your account. The easy-to-use interface is simpler than what other companies offer and you won’t have to do anything more than to fill several boxes. For a new SRV record, you will need to log in, check out the DNS Records section and click on the "New" button. Within the small pop-up that'll appear, you have to enter the service, protocol and port info. You may also set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, which will make a difference if you have no less than a couple of servers handling the same service. If you are using a machine from a different company, they may also ask you to set a TTL value different from the default 3600 seconds. This value specifies how long the newly created record is going to remain operational after you change it in the future.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since we acknowledge how irritating it may be to handle DNS records, we will offer you an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as an element of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from us, you are going to be able to create an SRV record without any problems. We've got a step-by-step guide, that will make things even easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll have to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value indicates the time the record will keep existing after it is edited or erased.