SRV Records

Learn more info on SRV records - what are they and when you should use them for your site.

SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to many servers simultaneously, each and every server managing 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 can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name added in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia CP and once you sign in to your web hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you'll only have to fill a couple of boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can input 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 want to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If necessary, you can also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it'll remain active after you modify or remove it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you’re able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.