SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different companies and point it to many servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the 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 example, and have the actual 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 you have set.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new SRV record for every single domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than a couple of clicks using a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia web hosting CP, you could make any record that you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to insert the record value, the protocol, the service along with the port number and you'll be ready. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you are also going to be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for those 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you will have a great deal of possibilities if you use many servers for a given service. Also, you can specify how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.