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 setting up a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to many servers at a time, each and every server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 actual software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, bundled with each and every cloud service we offer, provides you with an easy means to set up any DNS record that you need for a domain name or a subdomain within your account. The easy-to-use interface is a lot simpler in comparison with what other companies provide and you'll not have to do anything more complex 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 show up, you have to input the service, protocol and port information. You can also set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, that would matter if you have no less than a couple of servers dealing with the very same service. If you use a machine from a different provider, they might also ask you to set a TTL value different from the standard 3600 seconds. This value specifies how long the newly created record is going to remain functional after you modify it in the future.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a brand new SRV record for any domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than just a few mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and when you select SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must type in the service, the protocol, the record value along with the port number and you will be set. In addition, in case 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 default value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you will have a number of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a particular service. You could also specify how long the newly created SRV record will remain active in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.