SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ 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 providers and direct it to many servers at a time, each and every server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host a domain address inside a cloud website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to set up a new SRV record with a few clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you want customers to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can choose how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you may leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With a semi-dedicated server solution from us, you'll be able to take advantage of our user-friendly DNS administration tool, that is a part of the in-house developed Hepsia hosting CP. It's going to give you a quite simple user interface to set up a new record for each domain address hosted in the account, so if you wish to use a domain for any purpose, you can set up a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks. Via basic text boxes, you'll have to type in the service, protocol and port number info, which you should have from the company providing you the service. In addition, you're going to be able to choose what priority and weight the record will have if you are going to use a couple or more machines for the same service. The default value for them is 10, but you can set any other value between 1 and 100 if needed. In addition, you'll have the option to change the TTL value from the default 3600 seconds to any other value - thus setting the time this record will be live in the global DNS system after you erase it or change it.