SRV Records

Discover more information on SRV records - what are they and when you need to use them for your website.

SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain with different companies and forward it to a number of servers simultaneously, each server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but direct 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 real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

: SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, bundled with each and every shared web hosting service that we offer, gives you an easy means to set up any DNS record you need for a domain or a subdomain inside your account. The user-friendly interface is a lot simpler than what other companies offer and you won’t have to do anything more difficult than to fill a few boxes. For a new SRV record, you've got to sign in, navigate to the DNS Records section and click on the "New" button. In the small pop-up that'll appear, you have to type in the service, protocol and port information. You may also set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, that would make a difference if you have at least a couple of servers managing the same service. If you work with a machine from a different company, they might also ask you to set a TTL value different from the standard 3600 seconds. This value defines 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 completely new SRV record for any domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than a couple of clicks using a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS administration tool inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to insert the service, the protocol, the record value and also the port number and you will be ready. In addition, if the other service provider requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values if 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 will have numerous possibilities if you use many servers for a particular service. You can also outline how long the newly created SRV record will remain active if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.