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

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

Provided you have a shared website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain added in it are handled by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your website hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you will simply have to fill a couple of boxes with the necessary data and your new SRV record is going to be active in a few hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. If necessary, you can also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it will remain active after you modify or remove it. The standard 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 Servers

Since we acknowledge how aggravating it could be to handle DNS records, we'll provide you with an easy-to-use DNS management instrument as an element of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to set up an SRV record without complications. We've got a step-by-step guide, that will make things even easier. Using an intuitive interface, you will have to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you could leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a few 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 almost all records. This value shows the time the record will keep existing after it's modified or deleted.