SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain with different companies and forward it to several servers at once, each and every server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also 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. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host a domain name inside a cloud website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much simpler to create a new record in comparison to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only have to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you may set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like customers to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. Unless required otherwise, you could leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A brand new SRV record could be created in a matter of seconds for each domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to set up records through the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol details plus the record value in them and the new record is going to be active soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain working if edited or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.